> On 10. Sep 2019, at 22:09, Mark Moseley via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:57 PM Niels Kobschätzki via dovecot 
>> <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/9/19 6:18 PM, @lbutlr via dovecot wrote:
>> > On 9 Sep 2019, at 09:27, Niels Kobschätzki <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> wrote:
>> >> The moment I remove those folders, the size gets calculated correctly. 
>> >> Unfortunately those folders are generated by some clients automatically 
>> >> afaik (like .INBOX.Trash)
>> >> That sounds like a misconfiguration of the IMAP client. Someone has
>> gone in and improperly set INBOX as the IMAP path Prefix in their MUA.
>> 
>> The thing is that it worked before. Even when the user misconfigured
>> their client in such a way, the quota-plugin shouldn't just throw some
>> dice to get to a arbitrarily high quota the user has used instead of the
>> right amount.
>> 
>> > I used to have this problem with some users until I implemented repeated 
>> > and consistent application of a clue bat.
>> 
>> Some users is in my case (as far as I guess) like 0.5%
>> 
>> > I don’t know of a server-side setting to prevent users from screwing up 
>> > this setting, but maybe?
>> 
>> Wouldn't that break existing accounts?
>> 
> 
> Does it sound like this? 
> https://www.dovecot.nl/pipermail/dovecot/2019-March/115214.html
> 
> If so, in a direct email, Timo suggested using the 'count' quota (instead of 
> the Maildir++ quota). I've not yet been able to test that to verify, due to 
> the large amount of mailboxes and the reliance on maildirsize file for some 
> of our tools. 

This could be it but according to the documentation I don’t want to risk that 
performance hit. I have a high number of accounts as well and I don’t want to 
risk that performance hit when switching even though all boxes should be 
indexed. 

Niels 

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