[Dovecot] trouble with setting individual quota values for multiple namespaces

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 13:17 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 1.8.2013, at 11.09, Andreas Oster <aoster at novanetwork.de> wrote:
> 
> > please apologize that I repost this problem again. I tried to get some
> > help several times on the list but did not find/get a solution.
> > 
> > I am still struggling to setup different quotas for namespaces.
> > 
> > In addition to the default "INBOX" namespace I have created a namespace
> > called "MailArchive" which should have its own quota value of 5G per user.
> > 
> > At first I configured quota2 like this:
> > 
> >  quota2 = maildir:MailArchive quota:ns=MailArchive/
> >  quota2_rule = *:storage=5G
> > 
> > and this seemd to work quite well. Users, accessing the MailArchive
> > namespace can see the 5G limit in their mail client, unfortunately in
> > the mail.err log file, errors like these repeatedly appear:
> > 
> > Jul 29 11:40:24 mailserver dovecot: imap(testuser): Error: quota:
> > Unknown namespace: MailArchive/
> > Jul 29 11:41:43  dovecot: last message repeated 47 times
> 
> I can't reproduce this, works fine for me. Show your entire doveconf -n output? Also set mail_debug=yes and show what it logs when you log in.

Fixed, happened because of shared mailboxes:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/1705bf7bf484