Since I could issue an LDAP query for
(&(uidNumber=%uid)(gidNumber=%gid)) for homeDirectory to retrieve all
home directory paths, and associated mailDirSize files, I wonder if I
could extend dovecot to allow us to handle shared quota like the
fs-quota used to work.
Using symlinks between accounts would very quickly deteriorate.
Lund
Jorgen Lundman wrote:>
> Hello list,
>
> We are in the process of exploring the idea of moving from UFS with
> fs-quota to using softquotas in Dovecot (probably Maildir type, stored
> in LDAP, all ontop of NFS).
>
> I have it setup, and it works rather well so far.
>
> But there is one situation we can currently support, which I can not see
> a solution for with soft-quotas.
>
> Generally customers get 1 email, with 1 quota.
>
> But it is also possible for customers to get 1 quota, but create
> multiple mail accounts, all sharing the same quota. This is done by
> using the same UID for each account when using fs-quota.
>
> (It is not that each account gets a fraction of the quota, but that all
> accounts add up to the one quota).
>
> Is this still possible to do with soft-quotas. To share one set. Dovecot
> would have to go count files in multiple mail-directories so I would
> guess no.
>
> Lund
>
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