Maintaining table quota2

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Feb 14 01:37:27 EET 2019


More on 'global' local section:

If there was
!include_try global_local.conf

before the

!include_try local.conf

It would have things like:

#    dovecot.conf
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
dict {
     sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
}



On 2/13/19 1:51 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
>
> On 13.2.2019 2.02, Robert Moskowitz via dovecot wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/12/19 1:57 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12 February 2019 at 20:52 Robert Moskowitz via dovecot < 
>>>> dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/12/19 1:03 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
>>>> Dovecot keeps the quota current, although dict quota has been known 
>>>> to be bit bad at this.
>>>>> We nowadays recommend using count quota instead and use 
>>>>> quota_clone to copy the quota state to database. It is more accurate.
>>>> And how is this recommendation implemented?
>>>>
>>>> All I have are my old notes and what google is finding for me...
>>>>
>>>> Please give me some pointers.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Count
>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/QuotaClone
>>>
>>> and the recommendation is under
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota
>>
>> I have been spending effort today reading up on this and searching on 
>> a couple questions.
>>
>> For my additions to 20-imap.conf I have:
>>
>> imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
>> protocol imap {
>>     mail_plugins = quota imap_quota trash
>> }
>>
>> I see that the mail_plugin quota is moved to 10-mail.conf.  No biggie 
>> there.  But what about trash?
>>
>> And I tried to find documentation on imap_client_workarounds and all 
>> I have found is in:
>>
>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration#Client_Workarounds
>>
>> "Check imap_client_workarounds and pop3_client_workarounds and see if 
>> you want to enable more of them than the defaults. ?
>>
>> With no link about where to learn more.
>>
>> Where does quota count go?  Just dovecot.conf or one of the numbered 
>> conf addtions?
>>
>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Count
>>
>> Also is there a way to compute the count for all users?  I am 
>> migrating the maildir and rebuilding the sql database.  I see:
>>
>> doveadm mailbox status -u user at domain vsize '*'
>>
>> But do I do that for each user in each domain or is that '*' there to 
>> run it on all users?
>>
>> I think this will get me started.
>>
>>
>>
>
> You probably should configure quota plugin globally, if you want 
> LMTP/LDA deliveries to update quota.
>
> The quota count can be recalculated with doveadm quota recalc
>
> Aki
>

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