[Dovecot] maildri++ quota

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 10 12:31:34 EEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:33 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:01 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > When is the maildir quota usages recalculated and written to the
> > second line of the "maildirsize" file?
> > 
> > I'm using 1.1.4, and I reset the quotas for my users by just taking
> > the first line of their maildirsize file and deleting the rest.
> 
> Are the quotas wrong often? Dovecot uses the Maildir++ quota
> specifications:
> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
> 
> So the file is recalculated if it's
> 
> a) >= file is 5120 bytes
> 
> b) file is older than 15 mins and it contains more than two lines
> (header + the first value line)

Actually I forgot one important part about b): It's only done if user is
over quota.

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