On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, crs wrote:

Dovecot is really good software but I have one big problem with indexes. I have server with a lot of mailboxes - filesystem has quota enabled and I can't resign it from different reasons. When mailbox achieve quota size and user wants to pick mails via pop3, error "-ERR Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin." is given. I know it's because dovecot can't write indexes. Is it possible to force dovecot to write indexes with definite owner/group f.e dovecot/dovecot and not owner/group of mailbox?

Hmm, just a random suggestion, but another possible idea would be for dovecot to immediately delete the index it's writing if a write() fails. If there's a write error, It's not going to be a valid index anyway, so it might as well be deleted and be allowed to be automatically rebuilt later (if possible).

• Logan