Maintaining table quota2

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 2/12/19 12:38 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
>> On 12 February 2019 at 18:23 Robert Moskowitz via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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>> Does dovecot compute that values for quota2 with each email it updates
>> for the user?  Or only an incremental change?
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>> I ask because I am looking at migrating all the user mail from the old
>> server to the new and building a new sql database.  All I see is:
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>> dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext: connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>> dbname=postfix user=postfix password=$Postfix_Database_Password map {
>> pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota2 username_field = username
>> value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota2
>> username_field = username value_field = messages }
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>> what is actually done with this table?
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>> thanks
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> dict-sql converts the mappings into SQL statements.

But does dovecot check out the current bytes used and # of messages and 
resets quota2, or only uses this latest operation (add message, delete 
message...) to adjust quota2?

If the later how to reset quota2 to the current reality?

thanks