[Dovecot] Custom Quotas

[Andrew Barrow]

Greetings

I'm currently working on a design, to integrate an IMAP server into our 
existing mail architecture. It's proving to be a difficult exercise, mainly 
because of how we structure our quotas.

In our system, the quota covers more than just email. We have a single quota 
that covers email, ftp directory, and personal homepage. The quota is stored 
in a mysql database, in a werid table structure. The quota allocation is 
stored against the user, while the quota usage is stored in 3 rows per user, 
in a seperate table; One row each for www, email, and ftp per user.

I'm currently trying to figure out how we could integrate this quota into 
Dovecot. I'm quite happy to write plugin to handle updating the quota in our 
system, but I have no idea where to start. Any information you could provide 
on updating a quota in a third party system would be much appreciated.

Thanks for you help.

Andrew
andrew at myinternet.com.au

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