Friends,I'm working on documentation for various things Quota related, and find that I'm a little confused about the "quota namespace." It appears that, due to the second argument in "mboxname_init_namespace("a_namespace, 1)" (quota.c:176) that quota operations don't use 'altnamespace':
namespace->isadmin = isadmin;
namespace->hier_sep =
config_getswitch(IMAPOPT_UNIXHIERARCHYSEP) ? '/' : '.';
namespace->isalt = !isadmin && config_getswitch(IMAPOPT_ALTNAMESPACE);
namespace->accessible[NAMESPACE_INBOX] = 1;
namespace->accessible[NAMESPACE_USER] =
!config_getswitch(IMAPOPT_DISABLE_USER_NAMESPACE);
namespace->accessible[NAMESPACE_SHARED] =
!config_getswitch(IMAPOPT_DISABLE_SHARED_NAMESPACE);
if (namespace->isalt) {
...
}
else {
/* standard namespace */
sprintf(namespace->prefix[NAMESPACE_INBOX], "%s%c",
"INBOX", namespace->hier_sep);
sprintf(namespace->prefix[NAMESPACE_USER], "%s%c",
"user", namespace->hier_sep);
strcpy(namespace->prefix[NAMESPACE_SHARED], "");
}
return 0;
}
Am I reading that right (hint: not a C programmer)? But it also looks
to me like it should still use '/' as the hierarchy separator, right?
That's not what I'm seeing in my quota_db. I started with a system with no quotas. The old configuration used quotalegacy, so when I added some quotas, they ended up in /var/lib/imap/quota...:
# cyradm -U cyrus localhost Password: localhost> sq user/nic STORAGE 20000000 localhost> sq user/tim STORAGE 20000000 localhost> sq user/crystal STORAGE 20000000 localhost> sq user/nic X-NUM-FOLDERS 1000 localhost> quit # head /var/lib/imap/quota/*/* ==> /var/lib/imap/quota/H/user.crystal <== %(S (1190064060 20000000) M (13742) AS (3) NF (15)) ==> /var/lib/imap/quota/K/user.tim <== %(S (401903846 20000000) M (7308) AS (2) NF (8)) ==> /var/lib/imap/quota/N/user.nic <== %(S (1484883490) M (36930) AS (18) NF (42 1000))I then used cvt_cyrusdb to convert from quotalegacy to twoskip, and I still am seeing the netnews separator, rather than unix, both in the quota_db and in the output from "quota -f":
# strings /tmp/quota.db
twoskip file
user.crystal%(S (1190064060 20000000) M (13742) AS (3) NF (15))
user.nic%(S (1484883490 20000000) M (36930) AS (18) NF (42))
user.tim%(S (401903846 20000000) M (7308) AS (2) NF (8))$
# su cyrus -c "cyrus quota -f"
Quota % Used Used Resource Root
20000000 5 1162171 STORAGE user.crystal
13742 MESSAGE user.crystal
0 X-ANNOTATION-STORAGE user.crystal
15 X-NUM-FOLDERS user.crystal
1450081 STORAGE user.nic
36930 MESSAGE user.nic
0 X-ANNOTATION-STORAGE user.nic
1000 4 42 X-NUM-FOLDERS user.nic
20000000 1 392484 STORAGE user.tim
7308 MESSAGE user.tim
0 X-ANNOTATION-STORAGE user.tim
8 X-NUM-FOLDERS user.tim
Now to be clear, I have no problem with this if it works, but I'm
concerned about confusing administrators.
We already have the task of teaching existing Cyrus admins about all of the ramifications of converting to 'altnamespace: on' and 'unixhierarchysep: on' as the new defaults. This brings a new "but not here" context on top of it.
Similarly, for new folks, who don't know or care about historical legacies, we need to explain that while they're used to using slash "/" they won't see that from "quota" runs, or when they go poking around to repair quota problems.
I think I just need a good dose of cluefullness to proceed. :-)
Cheers,
-nic
PS - perl/imap/IMAP/Shell.pm POD info still says "The only I<resource>
understood by B<Cyrus> is C<STORAGE>." This needs updating (I'm happy
to do this.)
-- Nic Bernstein n...@onlight.com Onlight, Inc. www.onlight.com 6525 W Bluemound Road, Suite 24 v. 414.272.4477 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53213-4073
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