dovecot - Jul 2009 - Dovecot 1.2, quota and LDAP

Hi!

I'm in the progress of upgrading from Dovecot 1.0.15 to 1.2.1. This has
gone pretty smooth. I just have one question to check wether I have
understood the documentation right.

I have both system users and virtual users. That's easy to do when using
LDAP for userdb. The system users use filesystems quota, the virtual
users use maildir quota. I achieved this using the following in LDAP:
"fs:" (for system users, obviously) and
"maildir:storage=2048000" for
virtual users. This has worked fine for years.

But after reading the documentation, it seems I now have to use two
ldap-fields to achieve the same thing? One "quota" and one
"quota_rule"?
Is this correct? It's of course not impossible, but it's kinda a hassle
to hand craft a new schema, deploy, and update all the user's entries. 

If my users didn't have two kind of quotas, it would be easy, but with
two quota methods, I don't see any other way than to use two
ldap-fields. Which I hope I don't have to :)

Thanks.

Regards,
Stian

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 23:45 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> But after reading the documentation, it seems I now have to use two
> ldap-fields to achieve the same thing? One "quota" and one
"quota_rule"?
> Is this correct? It's of course not impossible, but it's kinda a
hassle
> to hand craft a new schema, deploy, and update all the user's entries. 
> 
> If my users didn't have two kind of quotas, it would be easy, but with
> two quota methods, I don't see any other way than to use two
> ldap-fields. Which I hope I don't have to :)
Well.. If your virtual users don't all have the same quota then yes,
you'll have to use two fields. Otherwise you could kludge around it :)

plugin {
  quota_rule = *:storage=2G
}

Then have LDAP return quota=fs:noenforcing or quota=maildir.

Or alternatively if your system users are also in /etc/passwd, or you're
using nss_ldap or something, you could do something like:

userdb passwd {
  args = quota=fs:noenforcing
}
userdb ldap {
  args = ..
}
plugin {
  quota = maildir
}

And return quota_rule from ldap.
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