[Dovecot] how to setup different quota for multiple namespaces

Andreas Oster aoster at novanetwork.de
Wed Jan 23 08:25:34 EET 2013


Am 22.01.2013 14:06, schrieb Andreas Oster:
> Am 22.01.2013 12:54, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>> On 17.1.2013, at 16.58, Andreas Oster <aoster at novanetwork.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> I just saw on important difference in the doc and this configuration:
>>>>
>>>> see
>>>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration#Quota_for_public_namespaces
>>>>
>>>> the ns=name syntax is for _public_ namespaces only. I just tested it
>>>> with this setup and every message is counted for both namespaces, if
>>>> delivered into INBOX or a mailbox of the Archive namespace.
>>
>> It should work for all namespaces.
>>
>>>>> plugin {
>>>>> quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota
>>>>> quota2 = dict:Archive quota:ns=Archive.:proxy::quota
>>
>> quota = dict:User quota::ns=:proxy::quota
>> quota2 = dict:Archive quota::ns=Archive.:proxy::quota
>>
>> That should work? Worked at least in latest v2.1 hg.
>>
>>
> Hello Timo,
> 
> thank you for your reply. I am using dovecot 2.1.7 (Ubuntu 12.10) and
> have tried to configure a separate quote root for a second private
> namespace without any success. The only working option is to
> ignore/disable quota for the second namespace:
> 
> 
> }
> namespace inbox {
>   hidden = no
>   ignore_on_failure = no
>   inbox = yes
>   list = yes
>   location =
>   prefix =
>   separator = /
>   subscriptions = yes
>   type = private
> }
> 
> namespace {
>   hidden = no
>   ignore_on_failure = no
>   inbox = no
>   list = children
>   location = maildir:/var/vmail/archives/%n/Maildir
>   prefix = Archives/
>   separator = /
>   subscriptions = yes
>   type = private
> }
> 
> 
> 
> plugin {
>         quota = maildir:User quota:ns=
>         quota2 = maildir:Archives quota:ns=Archives/
>         quota_rule = *:storage=1G
>         quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+200M
>         quota_rule3 = ns=Archives/:ignore
> }
> 
> 
> If I try to enter something like:
> 
>  quota_rule3 = ns=Archives/:storage=10G
> 
> I will get an error message saying that this is deprecated and needs to
> be replaced by "+10G".
> 
> best regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
Hello Timo,

I have created some DEB packages for Ubuntu with dovecot version 2.1.13
but this version shows the same behavior. Do I have to configure quota
like Steffen did with:

quota2 = dict:Archive quota::ns=Archive/:proxy::quota

Thank you for your kind help.

best regards

Andreas




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