[Dovecot] Unexplainable problem with POP3 quotas

[Marco Marongiu]

2009/5/1 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 17:36 +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote:
>> * send a message slightly smaller than the number of bytes added at
>> step 2 (e.g., 2000); we are still under the 80% limit
>> * log in via POP to make dovecot update maildirsize
>
> This is the problem. Your MDA should enforce the quota usage. There's no
> guarantees that Dovecot updates maildirsize after the Maildir has been
> modified externally. Even when it updates it, it uses a different code
> path ("quota recalculation"), which doesn't trigger quota warnings.
>
> So use Dovecot's deliver and it'll do the quota enforcing and warnings.

Thanks Timo, we just reviewed the information in
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA and http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix
and we'll begin to test a new configuration shortly.

I hope to be back with good news soon ;)

Ciao
--bronto