Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-29 Thread Duane Hill
Monday, August 29, 2011, 4:32:55 AM, Joseph wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove >>> the dotlocking method >>> >>> >>> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000996.html >>> >>>

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-29 Thread Joseph Tam
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote: Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove the dotlocking method http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000996.html Any comments on the (sole) use of POSIX fcntl() type locking? As long as

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 18:30 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Joseph Tam wrote: > > > Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as > > a locking method is the way to go. > > Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove > the dotlockin

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Joseph Tam wrote: Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as a locking method is the way to go. Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove the dotlocking method http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as a locking method is the way to go. There is another dotlock locking variant mentioned in 10-mail.conf that seems to address this situation for those that can't get away from dotlocks: # dotlock_try: Same as dotlock,

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-25 Thread Karsten Becker
On 08/25/2011 07:38 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 25.8.2011, at 5.12, David Warden wrote: > >> In your mail_location you can specify a different control and index >> directory as a place where the user has no quotas. I'm not quite sure which >> it is (control or index) that says where the dotloc

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.8.2011, at 5.12, David Warden wrote: > In your mail_location you can specify a different control and index directory > as a place where the user has no quotas. I'm not quite sure which it is > (control or index) that says where the dotlock file goes but it should be one > of them. Nope,

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-24 Thread David Warden
On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Joseph Tam wrote: > > A mail user reported that he filled up his INBOX (despite reminders he > was approaching his filesystem quota), and furthermore, he could not > fix the situation because he couldn't expunge message he marked for > deletion. > > The dovecot logs

Re: [Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

2011-08-24 Thread Patrick Domack
Don't use dotlock files. Method that generally works nice also is to start rejecting email for the user when they are at 99% capacity, so you leave just alittle room for that kind of thing left. Quoting Joseph Tam : A mail user reported that he filled up his INBOX (despite reminders he w