Re: [Dovecot] quota issue POP3

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:30 +0000, Obantec Support wrote:

Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3-login: Login: username [11.22.33.44] Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): Error rewriting mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): write() failed with mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded

i am assuming this is when pop3 login is trying to re-write file back when deleting emails.

Right. Dovecot 0.99.x works very badly with filesystem quota. 1.0-stable versions would be slightly better, but probably will still fail if quota is completely reached. It's in my TODO to fix this before v1.0.