Re: [exim] exim ignores maildir++ quota

Hi. Thank you all for your help. I'll try to use the same DB that
dovecot... or just use fs quota for simplicity. Thanks anyway




El 06/06/2011 04:51, Heiko Schlittermann escribió:
> Hello,
>
>
> Juan Bernhard <juan@???> (Fri Jun 3 21:44:10 2011):
>> Hello, Im having some troubles to set up maildir++ quotas (using a
>> maildirsize file).
>> Im using exim with dovecot. I use dovecot to set each user quota. The
>> problem is that exim does not respect the established quota limits on
>> the maildirsize file. Each time that exim delivers a new mail, it
>> replaces the quota limits
> …
>
> As Todd explained, you *have* to have the quota value in your
> configuration. The quota and quota_filecount settings are subject to
> expansion, thus you might look up the values from some database,
> shared (with dovecot) configuration file or whatever.
>
> You can't rely on reading the values from the maildirsize file, because
> this file is subject to removal in face of race conditions.
>
> Exim contains code for removing this file, and I think, dovecot does
> too. The specification for quota on maildir++ describes the scenario as
> well as exim-*/src/transports/tf_maildir.c (the latter is more
> understandable, at least for me).
>