How do I set the quota on a mailbox

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Mon Jul 4 06:21:41 EDT 2011


On 07/04/2011 03:55 AM, JonL wrote:
> I'm getting a a message stating that my Mailbox ix over quota.
> I login as the user and tried changing the quota and it does not work,
> I'm getting a Permission denied message.
> So I login in the cyrus user and I issue the command setquota
> user.jlmiller 25000 and I get the following message:
> mmtlnx:/home # cyradm --user cyrus --auth PLAIN localhost
> Password:
> IMAP Password:
> Login failed: authentication failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with PLAIN as cyrus
> Also tried the following:
> mmtlnx:/home # cyradm --user cyrus --auth localhost
> cyradm> setquota user.jlmiller 25000
> quota:25000
> setquota: no connection to server
> So what am I doing wrong?


Looks like either the cyrus user password is wrong or you are using the 
wrong type of auth.


Login failed: authentication failure at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm 
line 118


> Thanks
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