How do I set the quota on a mailbox

[Simon Matter]

> 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

Don't know why this fails.

>
> Also tried the following:
> mmtlnx:/home # cyradm --user cyrus --auth  localhost

That can not work, it means you use auth method localhost.

Does "cyradm --user cyrus --auth LOGIN localhost" work?

Simon

> cyradm> setquota user.jlmiller 25000
> quota:25000
> setquota: no connection to server
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
>
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