Hi, recently i decided to use quota_over_flag with passwd_file userdb. The main idea is to prevent dovecot (or vmail) user to have write access to file with passwords. To do it, i setup separate userdb as this (SQL userdb is SQLite based, thus the same problem with write): passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/over_quota default_fields = quota_over_flag=1 driver = passwd-file result_internalfail = continue-fail result_success = continue-fail } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } For testing i add one user into over_quota file: slavko at slavino.eu::::::: With this setting the doveadm user with user in over_quota seems to work: doveadm user slavko at slavino.eu field value uid 20000 gid 20000 home /srv/vmail/slavino.eu/slavko mail maildir:~/Maildir quota_over_flag 1 quota_rule *:storage=0M quota2_rule *:storage=0M But the user iteration shows duplicate users: doveadm user '*' slavko at slavino.eu slavko at slavino.eu ... As we discussed on IRC, it is how iteration works, as it emit users as soon as it meet it, but this doesn't correspond with "multiple userdb are merged" in docs (for iteration). I am surprised by this mainly because the particular userdb has set result_success to "continue-fail" and thus have to set user not found as with any user, which is not in this db. But it seems, that iteration ignores this result. I wrote this as we discussed via IRC, i am not subscribed, thus please CC me. regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: Digit??lny podpis OpenPGP URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20210705/3e96bc28/attachment-0001.sig>