Il giorno lun, 30/06/2008 alle 12.15 +0200, Alexander Prinsier ha scritto: > Mauro Sanna wrote: > > I'm reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota to enable quota management > > with dovecot. > > The first question is: I need to enable dovecot deliver, lda protocol, > > to have quota work? > > > > It depends on the backend you use. If you use filesystem quota's, then > there is no need to use the dovecot LDA, because the actual quota usage > is already being updated by the filesystem/kernel itself. > > However if you use Maildir++ quota, then something has to update the > maildirsize file so that it contains the actual usage of that Maildir. > So you need the dovecot LDA here, or another LDA that can update those > files in a compatible way. > > However I prefer to always use dovecot's deliver, because it > automatically updates indexes and caches when a mail arrives, and this > cannot be done by another LDA because the indexes and caches are dovecot > specific.
Thank you for ther answer....last question: if I use dovecot deliver, in dovecot.conf I need to enable only protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota } or I must enable also protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } and in case I have imap protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } ?