[Dovecot] maildirsize quota does not referred after migration from courier

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:29 +0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> 1. According the the wiki, it seems to imply that once migrating from
>    courier to dovecot, pop3 users may "lost/forget" their download "index/
>    history" which cause them to download again old mails that are kept on
>    server side.
> 
>    If this is true, it would seriously annoy our users since they always
>    keep old mails on server so that they can access them through webmail
>    interface.
> 
>    Is there anyway to avoid this kind of situation?

Use the migration script, which tries to preserve the UIDLs.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier

> 2. Currently, we use only /etc/passwd to store our user information. Postfix
>    is our MTA and maildrop is MDA. Quota settings were wriiten in the
>    maildirsize file reside under Maildir directory at everyone's home.
> 
>    The command we use to set user quota:
>    /usr/local/bin/maildirmake -q 315000000S Maildir
> 
>    After installing a test environment using dovecot v1.1.beta13, we found
> that it
>    does not read the quota settings from the maildirsize file, instead, it
> only rely on the
>    system wide settings. 

Don't give system wide limits, and it'll use the limits in maildirsize
file. I don't remember if this can be done simply by not specifying
quota_rule at all, or by specifying "quota_rule = *".

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