Re: Problems to configure IMAP Quota

[Jacques Belin]

Le dimanche 10 septembre 2017 14:35:16,
Alex JOST  a écrit:

> > 1) It seems that when we use the sql dict, a map contaning the patern
> > "priv/quota/limit/messages" is mandatory. Not specifying it  in
> > dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext issues an error.  As we are interested only by
> > the storage size and don't want to process the number of messages, how
> > to get rid of it ?
> 
> Set it to unlimited?

It is not the point.
I don't want to have to manage the number of messages, only the storage
size.

If the IMAP QUOTA RFCs, the number of messages is given only as an
example of resources that can be accessible by IMAP QUOTA. 
So why dovecot made it mandatory ?

> > 2) We store the storage value in kilobytes.
> > But the plugin seems to only accept storage in bytes, Is there any way
> > to let know to dovecot that the value stored in the database is in
> > kilobytes ? (of course, I tried to put "size/1024" in the value_field
> > field of the map. It works, but generate a lot of error lines in the
> > dovecot log as it create a syntaxly incorrect MySQL uodate request...)
> 
> Using 'storage' instead of 'bytes' should provide limits as kilobytes.

It is what I have already done, from the begnining.

But that word deals about how the limit is defined in the quota rule
definition, not about the values stored in the database. 
In the database we use, the sizes are stored in kilobytes, but dovecot
wants bytes (strange choice BTW, as when we deal about disk storage we
talk only in terms of sectors size, clusters, etc... which are now
always defined as multiples of kilobytes...)...


Jacques.
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Problems to configure IMAP Quota

[Jacques Belin]

Hello,

We manage a mail server using Dovecot under Debian.
Since a long time, we run nightly a script permitting to display the
storage usage of each user on the webmail, using internal calls. The
usage on each mailbox is stored in a Mysql database.

For several reasons, we would now want to use the IMAP quota feature,
not only to let users have the quota displayed from their Mail clients.

But testing that features, I encounter two problems : 

1) It seems that when we use the sql dict, a map contaning the patern
"priv/quota/limit/messages" is mandatory. Not specifying it  in
dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext issues an error.  As we are interested only by
the storage size and don't want to process the number of messages, how
to get rid of it ?

2) We store the storage value in kilobytes.
But the plugin seems to only accept storage in bytes, Is there any way
to let know to dovecot that the value stored in the database is in
kilobytes ? (of course, I tried to put "size/1024" in the value_field
field of the map. It works, but generate a lot of error lines in the
dovecot log as it create a syntaxly incorrect MySQL uodate request...)


Jacques.
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The last man connected to the Interet was browsing some old WebSites.
"You have new mail" appeared on the screen...
--- adapted from a short Fredric Brown's story