[Dovecot] 2.0.5: quota warning failing

[Daniel Luttermann]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote on 06.10.2010:

>>From the log:

> Oct  6 09:54:10 postamt dovecot: imap(hkunte): Error: quota:
> connect(/usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2) failed: Permission denied

>>From the config:

> quota = maildir
> quota_rule = INBOX.Trash:storage=+2048M
> quota_warning = storage=99%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2 99 %u
> quota_warning2 = storage=95%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2 95 %u
> quota_warning3 = storage=90%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2 90 %u
> quota_warning4 = storage=85%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2 85 %u
>   
> service quota-warning {
>   executable = script /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2
>   # use some unprivileged user for executing the quota warnings
>   user = vmail
>   unix_listener quota-warning {
>   }
> }

> But how exactly does this work? the user vmail cannot write to the
> users' mailboxes, so I'd have to run /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2
> as root, don't I?

Personally I use this:

service quota-warning {
  executable = script /usr/bin/quota-warning.sh
  user = vmail
  unix_listener quota-warning {
    mode = 0660
    user = vmail
    group = vmail
  }
}

Same for some other sockets like "dict"...

--
Daniel