Re: [Dovecot] Adding ", S=size" to new message files when using "dirsize"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:52 -0700, Rich, Whidbey Telecom wrote:
> 
> > Dirsize was never meant to be used with maildir. Why do you want
> to  
> > use it instead of maildir++ quota?
> 
> We'd like to use maildir++ in the future, but haven't tested it yet  
> with our MTA (which uses "dirsize"-like summing).  We realize  
> "dirsize is a really bad idea with maildirs" so don't prefer it, but  
> it's been working OK in the meantime.  If it could just enable  
> tagging appended files too, it might at least be an option for
> maildir?

I just fear that if I do that, some people would actually use maildir
+dirsize combination without realizing how horribly slow it is..


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Re: [Dovecot] Adding ", S=size" to new message files when using "dirsize"

[Rich, Whidbey Telecom]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:


On 20.3.2007, at 1.37, Rich, Whidbey Telecom wrote:

However, Dovecot only seems to do that when the "maildir" quota  
plugin is specified (from "quota-maildir.c"):


Yep.

Shouldn't "save_size_in_filename" be included in "quota- 
dirsize.c", since "dirsize" is the one that actually needs "S="?


Dirsize was never meant to be used with maildir. Why do you want to  
use it instead of maildir++ quota?


We'd like to use maildir++ in the future, but haven't tested it yet  
with our MTA (which uses "dirsize"-like summing).  We realize  
"dirsize is a really bad idea with maildirs" so don't prefer it, but  
it's been working OK in the meantime.  If it could just enable  
tagging appended files too, it might at least be an option for maildir?


Rich



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Re: [Dovecot] Adding ", S=size" to new message files when using "dirsize"

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20.3.2007, at 1.37, Rich, Whidbey Telecom wrote:

However, Dovecot only seems to do that when the "maildir" quota  
plugin is specified (from "quota-maildir.c"):


Yep.

Shouldn't "save_size_in_filename" be included in "quota-dirsize.c",  
since "dirsize" is the one that actually needs "S="?


Dirsize was never meant to be used with maildir. Why do you want to  
use it instead of maildir++ quota?





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[Dovecot] Adding ", S=size" to new message files when using "dirsize"

[Rich, Whidbey Telecom]

When APPENDing new message files to an IMAP Maildir, Dovecot 1.0 rc27  
can be configured to add ",S=size" to the filename.  That allows it  
to be calculated with the "dirsize" quota plugin (and MTA's such as  
Exim).


However, Dovecot only seems to do that when the "maildir" quota  
plugin is specified (from "quota-maildir.c"):


/* For newly generated filenames add ,S=size. */
storage->save_size_in_filename = TRUE;

Shouldn't "save_size_in_filename" be included in "quota-dirsize.c",  
since "dirsize" is the one that actually needs "S="?


Maybe I'm missing something?  Here're some relevant parts of our test  
config:


--
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
maildir_copy_preserve_filename = yes

protocol imap {
  mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/ 
libexec/dovecot/imap

  mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle
}

plugin {
  quota = dirsize:storage=10240
}

--
Thanks!

Rich

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