[Dovecot] dict quota and quota recalculation

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Apr 13 14:35:06 EEST 2010


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On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Alex wrote:

> So basically if I execute the script as root the maildir is root the uid/gid 
> is root
> I search and I found a trick for home :
>
> HOME=/home/sites/domain.net/mail/test/Maildir/; USER=test at domain.net; echo "1 
> getquotaroot inbox" | /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 
> --exec-mail imap
>
> (but first I must put used_quota and messages values on -1 in the quota 
> table)
>
> If I run this , all dovecot files are created in the user homedir (correct) 
> but with the wrong uid/gid (root).
> If I change the owner of that files , next time I run the same command , 
> nothing changes (uid/gid remain vmail.vmail).

See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PreAuth
You are using a "pre-auth"'ed session, that means uid/gid has to be set 
before running the command.

Regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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