[Dovecot] Glued-together private namespaces

[Mark Moseley]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Moseley <moseleymark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Mark Moseley <moseleymark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been goofing with this all day with 2.0.15 and I'm starting to
>> realize that either a) I'm not that smart, b) it's been so long since
>> I messed with namespaces that I'm going about it completely wrong, or
>> c) it's just not possible. I haven't posted 'doveconf -n' and other
>> details, because mainly I'm just looking for 'yes, this is possible'
>> or 'no, you're smoking crack' before posting further details. At this
>> point, it's all maildir and moving to mdbox, while highly desirable in
>> the future, is not possible in the near- to medium-term.
>>
>> I'm trying to glue a namespace underneath INBOX:
>>
>> namespace INBOX {
>>        type = private
>>        separator = .
>>        prefix = INBOX.    # Yes, this used to be on Courier
>>        inbox = yes
>>        list = yes
>>        hidden = no
>>        subscriptions = yes
>>        location = maildir:~/Maildir
>> }
>> namespace archive {
>>        type = private
>>        separator = .
>>        prefix = INBOX.Archives.
>>        inbox = no
>>        list = children
>>        subscriptions = yes
>>        location = maildir:~/Maildir-Archive
>> }
>>
>>
>> I've tried putting namespace archive's 'prefix' as just "Archives",
>> but Tbird doesn't seem to see this namespace, regardless of how much I
>> futz with the imap settings in tbird.
>>
>> With the above setup, it actually seems to work correctly (provided
>> ~/Maildir-Archive exists), though I'm sure a big gotcha is waiting in
>> the wings. I can move messages around, create subfolders, subscribe to
>> folders in ~/Maildir-Archive). The only thing I can't seem to get
>> working is quotas. With my password_query like:
>>
>> password_query = ...
>> CONCAT( '*:bytes=', "1M" ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule', \
>> CONCAT( '*:messages=10' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule2', \
>> CONCAT( 'INBOX.Archives:bytes=+4900M' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule3', \
>> CONCAT( 'INBOX.Archives:messages=+3900' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule4'
>> ...
>>
>> only the default quota seems to be in place for any subfolder of
>> INBOX.Archives and for INBOX.Archives itself, i.e. *:bytes still
>> applies to INBOX.Archives. The debug log show that:
>>
>> Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args=
>> Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=0
>> Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=10
>> Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=INBOX.Archives
>> bytes=+5138022400 messages=0
>> Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=INBOX.Archives
>> bytes=+5138022400 messages=+3900
>>
>> These are wildly stupid quotas but they're just there to test. With
>> INBOX already at capacity (byte-wise; only set to a meg), copying
>> large messages inside INBOX.Archives fails (only copying a 800k
>> message but the quota should be 5gig now).
>>
>> Again, before I post configs, I'm just curious if what I'm trying to
>> do isn't remotely possible, or that I'm approaching this entirely
>> wrongly. Thanks!
>>
>
> Thanks to a fortuitously unrelated thread ("how to disable quota for
> second namespace"), I got the quota part figured out and that seems to
> be working: Add a second entry to plugin {}, e.g. "quota2 =
> maildir:Archive quota:ns=INBOX.Archives." and add rules for
> userdb_quota2_rule, userdb_quota2_rule2, etc.
>
> My real question now is: Are there any fatal gotchas in this that I'm
> just not thinking of?
>

Haven't had a chance to try this large-scale yet. Anybody have any
thoughts on it?