[Dovecot] Dovecot quota not working

Bruno Guimarães Sousa brgsousa at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 22:44:25 EET 2009


Hi everyone,
I'm trying to make quota to work in dovecot 1.0.rc15 in a Debian machine.
Setting the limit to 1GB and starting to fill up the mailbox and nothing
stopped me. It just kept growing and nothing happened.
Restarted the service and nothing.
I had already exceeded the 1 GB limit and nothing happens, the mailbox still
goes bigger and bigger...

The *"check_quota"* plugin for squirrelmail shows "0.0% of 1.0GB" in my
browser. 1GB is exactly what it is defined in dovecot.conf by maildir.

Is it necessary to configure something in postfix?


Details:
# dovecot --version
1.0.rc15

# dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
IEffective uid=65534, gid=65534
ILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
IModule loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_quota_plugin.so
IModule loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap pop3
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
first_valid_uid: 0
first_valid_gid: 0
mail_privileged_group: users
mail_location: mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
mmap_disable: yes
mbox_read_locks: flock
mbox_write_locks: flock
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd


regards,
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Bruno Guimarães Sousa
www.ifba.edu.br
PONTONET - DGTI - IFBA
Ciência da Computação UFBA
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