dovecot - Sep 2006 - Quota plugin rewrite

Backported from CVS HEAD to branch_1_0. You can get it as a patch from
http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota-rewrite.diff

New features include support for multiple quota roots, so you could have
eg. per-user quota and a larger domain quota (although no backend
actually supports this yet..).

The more important feature is that you can configure specific mailboxes
to have a bit more space available for them, such as Trash or Spam. The
configuration has also changed. Normally you'd use something like this:

  quota = maildir
  # 1GB quota in general
  quota_rule = *:storage=1048576
  # Trash mailbox gets 100MB more (so max. 1,1GB)
  quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=102400
  # Spam mailbox gets also +100MB (still maxes at 1,1GB, not 1,2GB)
  quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=102400

You can place all the above into plugin { .. } section in dovecot.conf.
In userdb if users have different quotas you'd then need to override
only quota_rule (not quota, quota_rule2 and quota_rule3).

I tested quickly that this seemed to work as described above. Please
test and report. :)

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hi timo,
> Backported from CVS HEAD to branch_1_0. You can get it as a patch from
> http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota-rewrite.diff
>
> New features include support for multiple quota roots, so you could
> have eg. per-user quota and a larger domain quota (although no backend
> actually supports this yet..).
...
> I tested quickly that this seemed to work as described above. Please
> test and report. :)
do i understand correctly that _this_ (in dovecot.conf) is the way, 
now, to specify per-user quota, _rather_ than in, e.g., userdb static { 
spec?

richard

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hi,

-- On September 14, 2006 3:31:54 PM +0300  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> 
wrote:
> In userdb if users have different quotas you'd then
> need to override only quota_rule (not quota, quota_rule2 and
> quota_rule3).
could you please provide a specific example of the format for per-user 
quota override in a static userdb? (the wiki has example just for sql 
query ...)

i've tried a number of various formats suggested @ wiki & @ list, and 
have been, to date, unable to override the setting from the global conf 
file. no errors fire, simply no change is accepted.

thanks,

richard

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