[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot + imap idle + qmail-localdelivery

[Jochen Schug]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:31:34 +0100, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie at codemages.net> wrote:

> :2009-03-24T03:12:Timo Sirainen:
>
>> 1. qmail-local does rename tmp/file -> new/file
>> 2. Dovecot notices new/file and renames it to cur/file:2, immediately
>> 3. qmail-local stats new/file to see if rename() succeeded (not  
>> necessary),
>> notices it's no longer there and fails with quota failure (..but why  
>> quota
>> failure?..)
>
> I'm guessing it's assuming that if the file doesn't exists it ran out of
> space(or has been limited by the quota) and thus returns the quota
> failure.

Could be something related to that. As I mentioned, an unpatched qmail-local also fails too, with a temporary delivery error and redelivers the mail again. So it seems to think that the mail was not delivered properly, but it shows up just fine in the IMAP folder.

Jochen