Dictionary quota with Flat file database

[aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi]

> On June 30, 2016 at 4:41 PM Sam <sr42354 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want specific quotas for certain users and I looking for doing that 
> with dictionary quota backend and Flat file.
> 
> Because I am using "active directory" with PAM for authenticate, I can't 
> get per-user quota limits with set/override them by returning 
> "quota_rule" extra field from userdb.
> 
> I started reading http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict, saw some good 
> stuff...
> 
> The problem is that I don't understand how to set the limit in the users 
> files.
> 
> If I open one created file I only see the current number of messages and 
> the actual size. Not the quota limits...
> 
>   vi /home/vmail/john.doe/Maildir/dovecot-quota :
> priv/quota/messages
> 13
> priv/quota/storage
> 600201
> 
> Here is /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf file details :
> plugin {
> # I think I have to set the default limits here
>   quota_rule = *:storage=10G:messages=10000
> }
> ...
> plugin {
>    quota = dict:user::file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-quota
> # same result with :
> # quota = dict:User::file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-quota
> }
> 
> my server : CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511
> dovecot : dovecot-2.2.10-5.el7.x86_64
> 
> Thanks for helping.
> Sam

Hi!

You can use passwd-file userdb for setting additional attributes. 

Aki