[Dovecot] Separate quotas not displayed correctly

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 31 18:09:56 EET 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:45 +0100, Laurent Blume wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> My system is set up to have quotas both on /var/mail, where emails are
> received, and on /export/home, where users' homedirs are.
> But the client (Thunderbird) shows the same /export/home values both for
> the Inbox and for the folders in the homedir, so a user cannot know
> where she stands on her /var/mail use.

First of all see if the problem is with Thunderbird or Dovecot. Ask the
quota values directly from Dovecot:

telnet localhost 143
a login user pass
b getquotaroot inbox
c getquotaroot some-other-box

If b/c didn't return correct values, try also:

d getquota INBOX
e getquota Others

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