dovecot lmtp thinks that "disk quota exceeded" is "internal error"

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On 13/11/2018 21:07, Sami Ketola wrote:
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>> On 13 Nov 2018, at 21.06, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> wrote:
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>> On 13/11/2018 15:54, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
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>>> 2.2.36 (not migrated to 2.3 yet) reports such problem:
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>>>> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, Error: open(/var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock1bf6ad16b7b8b703) failed: Disk quota exceeded
>>>> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, Error: Couldn't create mailbox list lock /var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock: file_create_locked(/var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock) failed: safe_mkstemp(/var
>>>> /mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded
>>>> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, msgid=<db663455902e1b3faa53f344dc353870 at xxx>: save failed to open mailbox INBOX.Spam: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more informat
>>>> ion. [2018-11-13 15:50:58]
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>>> Looks a bug to me since disk exceeded is not a internal error. Shouldn't
>>> lmtp return over quota info instead of error?
>>>
>>
>> Just to confirm - dovecot 2.3.3 - the same behaviour, internal error
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> Dovecot can't create the lock file and it's treated as internal error. Why do you think that it should not be treated as such?

Dovecot knows it's over quota error and can report that way. Just like
it reports other over quota conditions.

> Sami


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