Okay, there seems to be a few post about receiving empty quota e-mails using the postfix-quota patch. I finally have Ubuntu working. It seems that when you follow the guide, Postfix is installed twice. Once with apt-get, the other using the patched source. The apt-get supercedes the source. Do not install postfix or postfix-mysql using apt-get Follow the "Apply The Quota Patch To Postfix" first. You will need to do: apt-get install ssl-cert openssl before: dpkg -i postfix_x.x.x-x_i386.deb dpkg -i postfix-mysql_x.x.x-1_i386.deb When you build postfix with the patch and do: dpkg -i postfix_x.x.x-x_i386.deb dpkg -i postfix-mysql_x.x.x-1_i386.deb postfix and postfix-mysql will be installed to work with the qouta patch properly Then: For Ubuntu Edgy Eft: Change the command: apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-doc mysql-client mysql-server courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl postfix-tls libsasl2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql sasl2-bin libpam-mysql openssl phpmyadmin apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-mysql to: apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl postfix-tls libsasl2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql sasl2-bin libpam-mysql openssl phpmyadmin apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-mysql Then continue with the guide. Update for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon: It appears when I had Gutsy working it was a one shot deal because now it will not work again! Edgy still works after several trials.
Upadte on Ubuntu postfix quota empty e-mail First the good news..... Feisty also works with the quota e-mail. Just follow the Debian Etch "Apply The Quota Patch To Postfix" since they use the same Postfix version. Then switch to the Gutsy guide. You will still need to do: apt-get install ssl-cert openssl before: dpkg -i postfix_x.x.x-x_i386.deb dpkg -i postfix-mysql_x.x.x-1_i386.deb The bad news is Gutsy is still refusing to work. I did find out that in Edgy & Feisty there is a maildirsize in each users mail directory that has the quota size and the size of the e-mail. In Gutsy this file does not exist. Gutsy only has the courierpop3dsizelist that just has the size of the e-mails. I am not sure if this is the problem or not. From one the courier techs: Jul 5 2007, 01:49 PM The conversion to Maildir format included a new imap and pop3 daemon. "courierpop3dsizelist" is simply a cache file for the new pop3 daemon. Maildir uses three directories, tmp, new, and cur. These are used for temporary messages (messages in the process of being delivered to your account), new messages, and currently read messages respectively, instead of the old style single file in mbox format used previously, which is why you'll see different directories and files now.
Gutsy working Gutsy is now working http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19765 This solution might work for Edgy & Feisty servers that are already running. I can not promise this as I have not tested it.
