RE: FW: quota-status service

[Michael Fox]

> No. But someone knew what to answer to them, you keep spamming the mailing
> list with repeated '???' instead of waiting, which *is* impolite. Someone
> WILL answer you when they have time to study your question and prepare an
> answer. As I said, if you think you should be entitled to timely
> responses, please consider purchasing a support agreement, so you can have
> an SLA. Support provided over mailing list is pro bono publico and no one
> gets paid doing it for you.

Understood.  And I don't think I'm "entitled" to anything.  The list is free.

But it may be helpful to understand this:  I figured that most people would 
want to use the quota-status service.  Therefore, most people must know 
something about it.  But there was no response at all, not even "I can help but 
it will take a couple of days", even though there was lots of other activity on 
the list.   So I did what is commonplace on some other lists by bumping it up 
to the top again.  No disrespect intended.  Every list has its own 
"personality".  I'll learn.

> 1. Quota status comes with dovecot-core, on my server (debian) it is in
> 
> ~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-status
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84K May 27 12:35 /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-status
> 
> Did you look there?

Yes.  I actually looked everywhere with find / ...
This machine is running Ubuntu 12.04, dovecot --version = 2.0.19

So, I just tried installing on another machine running Ubuntu 14.04, dovecot 
--version = 2.2.9.  It **is** there on that machine.

So, evidently, quota-status is not part of the older version.  I guess I'll 
need to upgrade since I prefer not to compile from source.

 
> You also are going to need ...
> [answers clipped]

Thank you.  All EXCELLENT information.  

quota_status_toolarge wasn't mentioned on the wiki.  I presume that refers to 
the individual message size being too large, correct?

Thanks again, this is what I needed.

Michael

RE: FW: quota-status service

[aki . tuomi]

> On July 3, 2016 at 6:41 PM Michael Fox  wrote:
> 
> 
> Aki:  Over the last three days, I've watched many other questions being asked 
> and answered.  Were they also impolite to ask?
> 

No. But someone knew what to answer to them, you keep spamming the mailing list 
with repeated '???' instead of waiting, which *is* impolite. Someone WILL 
answer you when they have time to study your question and prepare an answer. As 
I said, if you think you should be entitled to timely responses, please 
consider purchasing a support agreement, so you can have an SLA. Support 
provided over mailing list is pro bono publico and no one gets paid doing it 
for you.

Anyways, here are *some* answers to your questions:

1. Quota status comes with dovecot-core, on my server (debian) it is in

~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-status
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84K May 27 12:35 /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-status

Did you look there?

You also are going to need to use 'mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota'. See 
quota configuration in dovecot wiki. (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota)

2. It has no man page because it is not intended to be ran at command line, but 
-p means protocol. It should match your MTA/MX. Such as postfix, which at the 
moment is the only supported one.

3. Port you can choose freely, it is used by postfix to check the delivery 
possiblity before actually doing it. This is the statement in 
smtpd_recipient_restrictions,

check_policy_service inet:mailstore.example.com:12340

replace mailstore.example.com with localhost or your dovecot hostname. And port 
with what you choose.

4. The various responses are what your MTA/MX expects. Looking at postfix 
manual (http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html#protocol) you can see 
that "The "DUNNO" action causes Postfix to ignore the result."

You can look at the postfix manual for various acceptable answers, but the one 
indicated in the configuration example probably works best.

5. quota_status_*

quota_status_success, default response is OK
quota_status_toolarge
quota_status_overquota

toolarge and overquota default to "554 5.2.2 ".

quota_status_nouser, default response is "REJECT Unknown user"

These are sent verbatim to your MTA/MX; refer to it's documentation for allowed 
responses.

---
Aki Tuomi
Dovecot oy

RE: FW: quota-status service

[Michael Fox]

Aki:  Over the last three days, I've watched many other questions being asked 
and answered.  Were they also impolite to ask?

Peter:  What exactly was impolite about identifying missing information and 
listing the specific details that I'm looking for?

Aki & Peter:  Do either of you know the answers to at least some of my 
questions?

Michael

> -Original Message-
> From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Chiochetti
> Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 2:07 AM
> To: dovecot@dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: FW: quota-status service
> 
> Am 2016-07-03 um 10:43 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
> > If you need fast and timely support you can contact OX sales for an
> support agreement . It is somewhat impolite to except such from a public
> mailing list over weekend.
> 
> Nah, expecting such can be unreasonable,
> Impolite though the manner of expression
> 

Re: FW: quota-status service

[Peter Chiochetti]

Am 2016-07-03 um 10:43 schrieb Aki Tuomi:

If you need fast and timely support you can contact OX sales for an support 
agreement . It is somewhat impolite to except such from a public mailing list 
over weekend.


Nah, expecting such can be unreasonable,
Impolite though the manner of expression



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peter

Re: FW: quota-status service

[Aki Tuomi]

If you need fast and timely support you can contact OX sales for an support 
agreement . It is somewhat impolite to except such from a public mailing list 
over weekend.
---Aki TuomiDovecot oy
 Original message From: Michael Fox  Date: 
03/07/2016  09:00  (GMT+02:00) To: Dovecot Mailing List  
Subject: FW: quota-status service 
??? 3rd request

-Original Message-
From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Michael Fox
Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 5:56 PM
To: Dovecot Mailing List 
Subject: RE: quota-status service

???

 

From: Michael Fox [mailto:n...@mefox.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:59 PM
To: Dovecot Mailing List (dovecot@dovecot.org) 
Subject: quota-status service

 

I'm trying to understand the quota-status service, but I can't find complete
documentation.

 

The quota-status service is mentioned here:  http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota

 

And an example configuration is shown:

 

service quota-status {

    executable = quota-status -p postfix

    inet_listener {

    port = 12340

    # You can choose any port you want

    }

    client_limit = 1

}

 

But I can't find any information on quota-status.

"man quota-status" returns nothing.

I am unable to find a "quota-status" file on my machine.  Where is the
executable located?

What does the "-p postfix" option do?

Are there any other command line options?

The above wiki page shows three quota_status_* options in use:

    quota_status_success = DUNNO
    quota_status_nouser = DUNNO
    quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full"

Where are their meanings documented?

What are the allowed values?

Are there other quota_status_* options?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Thanks,

Michael