dovecot - Feb 2008 - 1.0.10 / Quota postlogin / Deliver - Not working according to the wiki?

Hello....

I load quotas from users homefolders using postlogin like this:


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#!/bin/sh

# Read users quota
if [ -f ~/quota ]; then
  export QUOTA=`cat ~/quota`
fi

# Start IMAP session
exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
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User without a quota-file in their homedirs get a quota set in dovecot.conf.


Im using LDA. According to the wiki this should not work:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota?highlight=quota :
This post-login trick unfortunately doesn't work with deliver 
<http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA>. If you need it, you're pretty much out
of
luck for now. v1.1 *quota* <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/New> makes 
this possible.


According to my tests it does indeed work. What is not supposed to work?


Tobias

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:40 +0100, Tobias Balle-Petersen
wrote:
> -------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # Read users quota
> if [ -f ~/quota ]; then
>   export QUOTA=`cat ~/quota`
> fi
> 
> # Start IMAP session
> exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> -------------------------
> 
> User without a quota-file in their homedirs get a quota set in
dovecot.conf.
Sure this works for IMAP.
> Im using LDA. According to the wiki this should not work:
Because the script is run only when logging in with IMAP, not when
delivering new mails, so deliver runs with the default quota limit.
> According to my tests it does indeed work. What is not supposed to work?
The script is definitely not run by deliver, but maybe you've managed to
make it work some other way (or you misunderstood something). One
possibility would be to set $QUOTA before running deliver and making
sure deliver doesn't override it.

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Because the script is run only when logging in with IMAP, not when
> delivering new mails, so deliver runs with the default quota limit.
OK. I was confused because a user over limit (from personal quota-file) indeed
gets his
messages deleted when new mail comes in. I see now however, that new mail keeps
comming in to the
user when is Trash is empty AND he is over quota. Thanks for clearing this up.

> The script is definitely not run by deliver, but maybe you've managed
to
> make it work some other way (or you misunderstood something).
Seems to be the issue here ;)

> One possibility would be to set $QUOTA before running deliver and making
> sure deliver doesn't override it.
Can you tell me more about my options in this direction? You mean the user would
load his quota whem
logging in, and this quota would stay loaded and visible to deliver even after
he logs out?


Thanks,
Tobias