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.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Obantec Support wrote:

maillog is reporting (username and IP replaced). 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.

You should define location of the dovecot's index-files to default_mail_env-setting on your dovecot's config file.

Something like this:

INDEX=/usr/local/var/dovecotindex/%n

It's important that index-files are not on the filesystem which has quota enabled. 0.99.x uses index-directories for temp-files as defined in mail-index-util.c

--cut-- int mail_index_create_temp_file(struct mail_index *index, const char **path) { int fd;

    /* use ".temp.host.pid" as temporary file name. unlink() it first,
       just to be sure it's not symlinked somewhere for some reason..
       FIXME: this function should rather be removed entirely. With
       in-memory indexes index->dir is NULL, so we fallback to /tmp
       so that mbox rewriting doesn't crash. */
    *path = t_strconcat(index->dir != NULL ? index->dir : "/tmp",
                        "/.temp.", my_hostname, ".", my_pid, NULL);

--cuit--

-- Pasi Sjöholm