[Dovecot] UW-IMAP style mbox snarfing from /var/mail/ to ~/mbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 5 22:33:43 EEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 21:12 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> In your original posting you said:
> > if all the
> > messages couldn't be copied, for example because of out of quota, then
> > none of the messages are copied. I suppose that could be a problem. It
> > might be possible to fix that by changing:
..
> > But I'm not sure about that. Try and tell me. :)
> 
> In your new patch you changed exactly this code, did you have a reason 
> to do so? I have yet to test your patch in an over-quota scenario, so I 
> can´t tell you my experience with the patch.

I changed it because I remembered my mail about it. With the previous
code if you had 1000 messages waiting in /var/spool/mail, either all or
none of them would be moved to ~/mbox. Now it should move as many as
fits. If it works.

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