Alan Premselaar wrote:
Jeroen Scheerder wrote:
Can anyone tell me whether or not there is, or will be, some way of using dovecot on a system with quota without risk of data loss when quota limits are reached? How do people cope with this?
I use Dovecot 0.9.14 with disk quotas.
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.
so, with the maildir storage format, procmail and mimedefang rules to reject mail for users that are over-quota, and dovecot configured to store indexes and control files on a non-quota'd filesystem, I've got a successful installation with filesystem quotas.
Thanks, that's insightful. I'lll probably add a quota checker to my procmail setup, and configure the indexes to get stored in a tmp dir sans quota. What are these control files? I've not seen them appear in any dovecot config file...