[Dovecot] Dovecot quota not working

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 17:44 -0300, Bruno Guimarães Sousa wrote:
> 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?

Yes. You need to use Dovecot deliver, Postfix's maildir delivery won't
update quota. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA

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