[Dovecot] Dovecot and quota enforcement - only reporting?

dovecot at corwyn.net dovecot at corwyn.net
Wed Oct 29 17:53:30 EET 2008


At 10:50 AM 10/29/2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Still no answer to my original question of what exactly updates
> > maildirsize? Is that also the dovecot LDA?
>
>1) Dovecot LDA for newly delivered mails
>2) Dovecot IMAP for messages saved/copied via IMAP client

Thanks, that perfectly explains why I haven't been able to figure out 
what makes maildirsize update.

> > So the only way to get quota enforcing with Dovecot is to have
> > Postfix use the dovecot LDA?
>
>Yes, the only way to enforce quota for newly delivered mails is to
>deliver mails via LDA capable of enforcing the quota. :)
>
>(It doesn't have to be Dovecot LDA though, there are other LDAs that
>understand Maildir++ quota too. Dovecot LDA is recommended though.)

Excellent. Now off to figure out whether I'll break anything by 
changing it! :-)  Is it different between virtual users (mysql using 
a dovecot-mysql.conf file) and local users?

Rick









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