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

[Alan Premselaar]

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.

alan