[Dovecot] Well, "Hard filesystem quota can also be problematic"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:12 +0200, Jeroen Scheerder wrote:
> 	"The current command did not succeed.  The mail server responded:
> 	 Out of disk space."
> 
> This I can live with.  Hoever, at some point in our experiments we also found 
> that a mailbox (mbox format) that did contain a few dozen messages suddenly 
> was truncated to 0 bytes.  Not so hot.

This shouldn't happen. There is really only one place where mbox file is
truncated in the code, and it shouldn't be done unless client was
actually expunging messages. If you can reproduce it with strace output
I'd like to see that (set mail_executable = strace -o
log .../dovecot/imap).

> p.s. That first error message gave rise to the enclosed patch.

Thanks. I must have been writing occurred wrong forever :)

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