quota-service with Director - A workaround

[Sami Ketola]

> On 20 Mar 2019, at 17.13, Tom Sommer via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> I realize quota-service on Director is not supported, which is a shame.
> 
> As a workaround I'm thinking of setting up quota-service on one of my backend nodes, and have all my Postfix services ask this one node for the quota status.
> 
> This sort of defeats the purpose of the Director (having per-user assigned hot nodes), since now this one node running the quota-service will access all mailboxes to check the status of all inbound mail.
> 
> Is this a problem though? In terms of NFS locking etc. etc.?


Might be. Wouldn't it be just easier to use the overquota-flag available since 2.2.16 and set up overquota flag in LDAP or userdb of choice and configure postfix to check that flag?

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration <https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration>

Sami

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