[Dovecot] Well, "Hard filesystem quota can also be problematic"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 18:24 +0900, Alan Premselaar wrote:
> I use maildir format however.  you can't expect to use mbox format and 
> not get data loss/corruption when you hit a filesystem quota.  I've 
> fairly certain that even UW-IMAP will corrupt your mbox files in the 
> case of exceeding your quota as well.

Actually neither should be corrupting it. Both first grow the file size
by the needed amount and only after that start writing to it. So if the
growing fails, they revert back to original size and give some error
message.

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