Hello, Thanks for the clarifications
plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_grace = 10%% # 10% is the default quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full" } The above configurations is my default for all users. but my mail system is using mbox format and not maildir.... so what should i change in the above configuration to use mbox INSTEAD of maildir ?? Also for the quota paramater, can i use (myquota = maildir:User quota) INSTEAD of (quota = maildir:User quota) ?? or it must "QUOTA =" and not any thing else to work ? same for quota_rule parameter, should i add (_rule) after quota to work ??? can i add for example qouta_restriction INSTEAD of quota_rules ?? i am asking this question to better understand how dovecot work.. also last question when i use the following command to get quota for existing system user called michael , it gives me an error as follow, so why dovecot is not able to get the quota for the system users? doveadm quota get -u michael doveadm(michael): Fatal: User doesn't exist Many thanks >> Incase user is underquota, then the email is returned back to postfix for >> processing and delivering email to user mbox, incase user has no sufficient quota then dovecot will inform postfix to reject email. Please confirm if what i mentioned above is correct and that i >> understand >> correctly how dove-cot policy works with postfix. > Your understanding is mor or less correct, except that postfix never passes the email itself to dovecot when performing the quota check. It simply sends a message to the quota policy service asking if the recipient is over quota. If the recipient is over quota, dovecot provides postfix with the response configured in quota_status_overquota. If the recipient is under quota, dovecot provides postfix with the response configured in quota_status_success. If dovecot does not know the user, it provides postfix with the response configured in > quota_status_nouser. >> Kindly check my configuration below and advise the missing parts to add... > I don't see anything wrong with your configuration on first appraisal, but if it isn't working I would recommend you perform the following troubleshooting steps. > 1. Verify the user's mailbox is over or under quota in alignment with your expectations > - `doveadm quota -u $RECIPIENT` > 2. Test that the quota service provides the response you expect it to > - `echo "recipient=$RECIPIENT" | nc -q1 localhost 12340` > On 09/26/2015 01:40 AM, Michael Peter wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to use dovecot quota service for postfix in order set quota for some users. >> i configure postfix policy service to ask dovecot if user quota is sufficient to accept the email or not. >> (dovecot in this case acts only as policy server to postfix as it only ACCEPT/REJECT email according to user quota, but it is not used to deliver >> email , because postfix will deliver the email to user mailbox) Incase user is underquota, then the email is returned back to postfix for >> processing and delivering email to user mbox, incase user has no sufficient quota then dovecot will inform postfix to reject email. Please confirm if what i mentioned above is correct and that i >> understand >> correctly how dove-cot policy works with postfix. >> Kindly check my configuration below and advise the missing parts to add... >> plugin { >> quota_rule = *:storage=1G >> quota_grace = 10%% >> # 10% is the default >> quota_status_success = DUNNO >> quota_status_nouser = DUNNO >> quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full" >> ... >> } >> The above configurations is for all users which is not override by quota >> rules in userdb's extra fields in my password file below. >> Is the above configuration missing some thing ? i am using mbox format for >> emails storage. do you i have to add (quota= SOMETHING) before >> (quote_rule >> = *:storage=1G) and what to do add to make dovecot support mbox quota? smtpd_recipient_restrictions = >> check_policy_service inet:SERVER-HIDDEN-FOR-SECRUITY.com:12340 >> service quota-status { >> executable = quota-status -p postfix >> inet_listener { >> port = 12340 >> } >> client_limit = 1 >> } >> now in order to configure dovecot specific quota for user named (user1) i >> use passwd-file as follow >> user1:{plain}pass3:1002:1002::/home/user1::userdb_mail=mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/user1 userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=300M >> All other users except users1 should have 1GB storage according to this configuration. which user1 will only have 300MB >> Please advise what is my configuration is missing and if i need to add any >> thing to run without issues. >> Many thanks >> Michael Peter