On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 13:08 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > We've seen two issues come up with Dovecot LDA, both of which have > caused us problems: > > 1) If the user's home directory does not exist, or is not owned by them, > deliver fails and causes the mail message to bounce back to the > originator. In our environment this happens when our user is moved > to another server (where we move their files, but for up to 24 hours > afterwards, continue to re-mail their /var/mail INBOX). This no > longer works because the user has no home directory, causing deliver > to fail with "Permission denied" when attempting to create their > home directory for the purposes of creating INBOX index files.
Happened with mbox, but not with maildir. Changed to return temporary failure: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008357.html > 2) If the user is over quota (in their home directory), deliver fails > with a temporary error, causing requeues until the user is back > under quota (which in our environment could be a long time, days). > Since we've never had quotas on the user's INBOX (in /var/mail), > this is a problem for us. .. > I'd propose for both of these cases that deliver issue WARNING messages > to its logs, and simply not create index files for the INBOX. If the > INBOX index files already exist, and the user is over quota in /home, > neither deliver nor any other Dovecot process should attempt to update > them, and instead issue WARNING messages. This allows the e-mail to be > delivered instead of requeued, or worse yet, rejected. Index files are > supposed to make things perform better, not worse, in ALL cases. :) For the 1) case.. No. At least not anytime soon. The mail root directory is used for other things than index files as well, and I don't want to add lots of special case checks to make it work in a INBOX-only environment. For 2) case, it should work like that since rc27. What version are you using?
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