On 12-05-2012 20:42, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 12.05.2012 20:35, schrieb Luuk@dovecot: >> On 12-05-2012 19:48, Gedalya wrote: >>> >>> I understand you sent an email to yourself? >>> If you gained one $message_size upon reception and lost 2*$message_size >>> upon deletion from Inbox+Sent, I would suspect quota plugin isn't active >>> when the message is being delivered. How are messages delivered? Dovecot >>> LDA, LMTP or an external MTA? >>> You really should use LDA or LMTP to handle quota accounting. >> >> Yes, i was sending it to meself... >> Postfix delivers mail using procmail. >> Next thing i need to read about mailservers are the LDA/LMTP pages.... > > this should be one of the first things > > nobody needs procmail/shellscripts to get quota with postfix > and a MDA with LMPT support wokring these days > > usually the better way implementing services is to draw > what exactly is needed and read docs how all this things > can be achived
Everything (besides quota ;) is working as needed > > example from dbmail (dovecot should be the same) > /etc/postfix/master.cf: > dbmail-lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp -o > disable_dns_lookups=yes > > set the postfix-transport to "dbmail-lmtp:127.0.0.1:24" for each domain which > should > be delivered to LMTP and you are done, "dbmail-lmtp" is only a name > > > > i have a line like that in my master.cf, i reads: lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp but (apparantly) is not used. Before starting to use that, i should make sure all received mail keeps coming in at the right place...
