Hi,

originating from the same Problem Edgar Fuß described here [1] about "Zero-sized Maildir files and index corruption on over-quota" i setup quota = fs:user quotas with a quota_rule set to 1.5G to prevent getting those zero sized mail files. What happens now is that when the user is over system soft quota (1G) mails stop beeing delivered.

Jun 16 19:05:45 mail dovecot: deliver(elont1): msgid=20110616185545.05ab0f56@x201t: save failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)

This is bad as users get notified per mail by a script about beeing over quota (this mail is now beeing deferred). If i don't set a quota_rule i still get 0byte files (quota is ignored). If i set a higher than system quota quota_rule it still uses the system soft quota.

I have a seconary mailserver which already uses dovecot 2.x but i can't test the feature there as it's running inside a jail and thus has no access to quota. I would like to keep this machine on 1.2.16 for now.

dovecot -n output is below.

thanks, Leon

[1] http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053554.html

19:20_root@mail:/usr/local/etc# dovecot -n # 1.2.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p2 amd64 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s managesieve listen: mail.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de ssl_cert_file: /etc/private/mail.physik.tu-berlin.de.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/private/physik.tu-berlin.de_privatekey.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 6 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/maildir mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: mbox:~/mail list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@physik.tu-berlin.de log_path: info_log_path: mail_plugins: sieve quota quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: gssapi plain login krb5_keytab: /etc/mail.krb5.keytab gssapi_hostname: mail.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de worker_max_count: 120 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes failure_show_msg=yes max_requests=100 userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/.sieve quota_rule: *:storage=15728640 quota: fs:user