To alert users, that are approaching theirs mailbox quota limit you can use built in Dovecot plugin quota_warning.

1. Edit the main Dovecot configuration file:
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

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plugin {
quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage
sieve=/var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve

# Do not change existing plugins defined above, just add new entries below

quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u # user is no longer over quota
}

service quota-warning {
executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
user = vmail
unix_listener quota-warning {
user = vmail
mode = 0600
}
}
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This will execute defined script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh when user will exceed 80 and 95% of their mailbox space.

2. Create the alerting script:

[code]

#!/bin/sh
PERCENT=$1
USER=$2
cat << EOF | /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $USER -o "plugin/quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing" From: postmaster@localhost.local Subject: Mailbox size warning Your mailbox is now $PERCENT% full. Please delete old messages. EOF
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