On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:35:33PM -0300, marcelo@carpa.ciagri.usp.br wrote:
Now, one last question (for a while): would be possible/desirable make Dovecot work when an user is with her disk quota completely full (hard quota)? The main reason I'm looking for an alternative imap server is that neither WU-Imapd nor Courier work "properly" (from an user point of view) in that situation (the user can not login or delete her messages to clean up the mailbox). If Dovecot could handle this problem (creating its scratch files in /tmp, perhaps) it'd be big plus, IMHO.
Well, that is a bit difficult to handle.. It's mostly the index files that dovecot has to create/grow. I think I should support keeping them only in memory when disk quota is exceeded.
But what about clients, I think some of them just copy the mail to trash folder instead of deleting the mail? But maybe with maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes that'd be possible even with quota full.
I guess I'll have to install quota support and start fixing.