[Dovecot] Quota

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 14 17:01:34 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:57 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:24:36PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:00 +0200, David Kmoch wrote:
> > > Are those features of specifying INDEX and CONTROL going to be permanent
> > > in dovecot or is it some temporary *hack* ???
> > 
> > Specifying them in default_mail_env will be removed and they're going to
> > be made separate settings, but they will stay. They are pretty much the
> > only possible 100% working solution to fix filesystem-level quota
> > problems.
> 
> Or 99% :-) Note that there are some systems where moving messages from
> 'new' to 'cur' can trigger a quota issue because of failure to increase
> the directory size.  I suppose this doesn't necessarily cause a failure
> though, if you simply leave the messages in 'new' in this case, if
> messages can still be accessed/deleted out of the 'new' directory.

That is pretty much the same problem as with read-only maildirs. Dovecot
handles that already :)

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