User Viewable SquirrelMail Quota's

[k9Wolf]

I have noted that there are a couple of plugins for SquirrelMail which are supposed to present quota usage.

The objective I have is to display a users pop 3 current usage in SquirrelMail. This will provide a visual warning for when they are reaching their mailbox limit.

Have tried both the available plugins at SquirrelMail without success.

I have included the steps taken below and was wondering if anyone else had succeeded or if there is an alternative people might be using.

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DA with RH 9

Version 1.1 of quota_uage (quota_usage-1.1) has been verified to work with SquirrelMail 1.4.

The proggy has been installed in: /var/www/html/squirrelmail-1.4.2/plugins/quota_usage-1.2.tar.gz/

I then did cd ../../config/ to change to the config directory and ran ./conf.pl

From the menu that runs, I select the plugin and S to save. The a Q to quit the Menu.

Logged into a Squirrelmail Mailbox - checked if anything was showing - nope.

Went back to the pluggins docs..

Its supposed to work with both with Courier-IMAP 1.4.0 > and Cyrus IMAP.

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The Plugin FAQ had this to say..

QUESTIONS

1. I use Courier-IMAP with the user quota set, but nothing shows up.


ANSWERS

1. I use Courier-IMAP with the user quota set, but nothing shows up.

A: The "QUOTA" capability is not listed in the configuration file by
default. To turn this on, add "QUOTA" in the CAPABILITY directive
of /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd, then restart the imap server.

NOTE: Courier-IMAP will NOT report a quota if usage is 0%. If you
Believe you have it setup correctly, try sending a message to the user,
then check again.
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I believe I tracked down the required file in /etc/xinetd.d/imap

Did a less to show:

# default: on
# description: imapd
service imap
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/imapd
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
}
(END)


Modified the file to include quota:

# default: on
# description: imapd
service imap
{
quota = yes
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/imapd
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
}
(END)

Saved the file and ran /sbin/service xinetd restart to restart the service.

Did a cd /var/www/html/squirrelmail-1.4.2/config/ and ran ./conf.pl again.

Added the quota_uage to the plugins menu (8). Saved and quit.
Checked Squirrelmail again - still nothing. :(

I then reversed back out of all the changes made re the plugin and changed back the /etc/xinetd.d/imap to original settings (removed the previous addition of quota = yes

Saved the file and ran /sbin/service xinetd restart to restarted the service.

[jmstacey]

Did you try this on email accounts that had a quota set when they were created through DirectAdmin? If there is no quota then the stats won't work.

I'll try installing and see if I get the same result :)

[jmstacey]

I did not have any luck either.

Maybe someone who has better knowledge of how DA setup and uses imap would be helpful.

[k9Wolf]

Thanks for trying Jon.

After reading your first reply I too decided to go back and see if it worked with a DA user account as opposed to a DA Pop-email account.

Sadly, it made no difference. At present, I can only think that it might be a compatibility issue with the version of IMAP that DA runs.

the ./conf.pl file for squirrelmail plugins did have a D option (Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers) but I was unsure what settings I should have been using there.

Kind regards,
Rohan.