Haven't heard from Timo yet, but in my research on migrate to the
maildir format from my present mbox standard, I stumbled over this in
the Maildir Configuration wiki page:
Dovecot can't currently handle not being able to write the control
files, so it will cause problems with filesystem quota
<http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/FS>. To avoid problems with this, you
should place control files into a partition where quota isn't checked.
You can specify this by adding :CONTROL=<path> to mail_location, for
example:
mail_location = *maildir*:~/*Maildir*:CONTROL=/var/no-quota/%u
This, of course is for Maildir format, while I am currently using mbox.
My current mail_location line looks like this:
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
can/should I do something like this to fix my problem:?
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:CONTROL=/var/no-quota/%u
:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
FWIW, there is no quota on the index filesystem (/var/dcindx).
Relying further on the kinde
Stewart Dean wrote:
Don't know if anyone else uses Berkeley derived filesystem quota, but
IBM's AIX does. A little over a week after migrating from UWIMAP to
DC (with mbox format unchanged) everything is clean except for this
one problem:
When users go over quota, when they login the next time, the folder
list is blank. You can imagine the panicked calls to the Helpdesk.
If their quotas are raised or re-graced, Get Mail returns the expected
list. This behavior happens with a variety of clients: Pine,
MacMail,TBird, Horde Webmail, etc.
The index filesystem has no quota on it.
I would have to imagine the Dovecot is using (or trying to use) some
space in the quota'ed filesystems which the operating system won't
allow, and this results in there being an empty file that DC uses for
the message list sent to the client. There are NO messages in syslog
(other than the expected login and logout) indicating any problems.
Our legacy setup has the inboxes in /var/spool/mail, and the folders
in ~/mail. The problem can happen either place.
dovecot -n returns:
# 1.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 12
login_max_processes_count: 774
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 200
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
mbox_dirty_syncs: no
mbox_lazy_writes: no
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Suggestions?
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