dovecot - Jun 2020 - Deliver administrative message ignoring user quota

Hi everyone,

I have a separate internal system running on a different host that needs to put
an administrative email into a user?s inbox.

I?ve been playing around with the ?doveadm mailbox save? command via Doveadm?s
HTTP API
(https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/doveadm_http_api/#doveadm-mailbox-save
<https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/doveadm_http_api/#doveadm-mailbox-save>).
This works quite well provided the user is within quota limit, however, I would
like to be able to deliver these messages even if the email account is over
quota.

I noticed that it?s possible to override the quota configuration using
dovecot-lda by overriding plugin/quota with the ?noenforcing? directive as
explained in https://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration
<https://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration>.
I don?t currently use LDA, SMTP servers based on Postfix deliver mail via LMTP
and I need to be able to deliver this message from a different host in the
network.
The HTTP API doesn?t seem to support overriding the quota config.

What would be the best way to go about this?

Thanks
Peter
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On 06 Jun 2020, at 11:25, Peter Folta <mail at peterfolta.net>
wrote:
> I have a separate internal system running on a different host that needs to
put an administrative email into a user?s inbox.
The easiest way to do the is simply to send an email. It is a lot simpler to
setup the right authentication settings that it is to try to manually copy mails
into a users folders without messing things up.

As for subverting the quota you can explode a specific folder from quota rules,
and use sieve to deliver the admin message to that folder (and to auto-move
mails in that folder that are not admin messages pit of the mailbox).

Pretty sure.



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On 06 Jun 2020, at 21:27, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com>
wrote:
> As for subverting the quota you can explode a specific folder
Exclude.
> from quota rules, and use sieve to deliver the admin message to that folder
(and to auto-move mails in that folder that are not admin messages pit
Out.
> of the mailbox).



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