On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:23:12AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > 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?
We are using rc24 on one server, rc27 on another. Are you saying that it should deliver e-mail to my INBOX (in rc27) even if my home is over quota? I will need to double-check, but I thought this was not the case in either rc24 or rc27, and that it was requeuing instead. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593
