Hi all, i have a (Qmail 1.03 + Maildir++ patch) and Vpopmail 5.4.25 system on which i've recently installed Dovecot 1.1.4. Previously i've used qmail-popup as my pop daemon, but there are some issues with maildir++ support that caused me to switch to Dovecot.
I have Dovecot up and running, as in Authentication against the Vpopmail backend is working. I understand that Dovecot understands the maildir++ quota system as described on: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Qu
The relevant part of the config file is:
protocol pop3 {
...
mail_plugins = quota
}
plugin {
quota = maildir
}
However that by itself doesn't seem to be enough. I'd like to use the quota as stored in the vpopmail database. I tried (in "auth default"):
passdb vpopmail {
args = quota_template=quota_rule=
}
however, that also doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions
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Yes, i'm familiar with that page, i've installed it using his instructions. The authentication part against the vpopmail backend is working beautifully, but the quota support is not as it should work, preferably i want it to check the maildirsize file and if that doesn't exist, recreate it based on what's inside the vpopmail database.
Might be worth while to post the question on his mailing list:
http://qmail.jms1.net/list
There are quite a few knowledgeable people on there.
Apart from that, not sure what to tell you.
The trick was to configure it like this:
plugin {
quota = maildir
quota_rule = ?:storage=0
}
The ? means, use "maildirsize" file if present, otherwise storage is unlimited, this way our backend is leading. Vpopmail will recreate the file if it doesnt exist when delivering new mail and the pop or imap daemon just has to update the file.
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by: Syngin9Posted on 2008-10-20 at 11:13:23ID: 22760536
I've only done the Dovecot install a few times but John Simpson has quite a few notes on it working with Vpopmail here:
http://qmail.jms1.net/dove
He mentions on that page to use the following config:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
namespace private {
separator = .
prefix = INBOX.
inbox = yes
}