On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:57 PM Niels Kobschätzki via dovecot < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/9/19 6:18 PM, @lbutlr via dovecot wrote: > > On 9 Sep 2019, at 09:27, Niels Kobschätzki <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The moment I remove those folders, the size gets calculated correctly. > Unfortunately those folders are generated by some clients automatically > afaik (like .INBOX.Trash) > >> That sounds like a misconfiguration of the IMAP client. Someone has > gone in and improperly set INBOX as the IMAP path Prefix in their MUA. > > The thing is that it worked before. Even when the user misconfigured > their client in such a way, the quota-plugin shouldn't just throw some > dice to get to a arbitrarily high quota the user has used instead of the > right amount. > > > I used to have this problem with some users until I implemented repeated > and consistent application of a clue bat. > > Some users is in my case (as far as I guess) like 0.5% > > > I don’t know of a server-side setting to prevent users from screwing up > this setting, but maybe? > > Wouldn't that break existing accounts? > > Does it sound like this? https://www.dovecot.nl/pipermail/dovecot/2019-March/115214.html If so, in a direct email, Timo suggested using the 'count' quota (instead of the Maildir++ quota). I've not yet been able to test that to verify, due to the large amount of mailboxes and the reliance on maildirsize file for some of our tools.
