quota-status fails when size=0 from Postfix

Christoph Haas email at christoph-haas.de
Fri Jul 30 00:03:16 EEST 2021


Am 29.07.21 um 22:08 schrieb Benny Pedersen:
> On 2021-07-29 20:13, Christoph Haas wrote:
> 
>> I really wouldn't want to script my own policy daemon just to avoid
>> backscatter. :(
> 
> why not ? :=)

I'm considering it. But I still hope that I'm doing something wrong or 
that Dovecot's plugin can be improved.

> quota grace is ideal with same size as max mailsize in postfix, with is 
> 10MB as standard, the quota grace ensure one mail is possible to be sent 
> if its not much mail left in dovecot to fill the quotas 100%
> 
> so setting it to 0 is silly like set non default settings in postfix 
> main.cf, limits are there for something

I don't mind using the grace amount. But I don't want to accept that the 
quota-status tells me that the user is under quota only to be rejected 
in the next step with LMTP.


More information about the dovecot mailing list