[Dovecot] Handling of file "maildirsize"

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jul 26 22:28:20 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 14:31 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> Therefor there must be a short period of time where no maildirsize exists.
> 
> Can this really happen? 

This happens if Dovecot detects that maildir changed while it was
rebuilding maildirsize file.

> If yes, could this behaviour be changed?

The other possibility would be to just leave the maildirsize there with
wrong quota usage value. This is actually what Courier seems to be
doing. I don't really like that behavior either.

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