[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0

[Chris Wakelin]

Cor Bosman wrote:
>>I've been implementing this slowly over the last few months. Takes 
>>annoyingly long (it's boring), but it's getting there. In the mean time 
>>IMAP and POP3 code in 1.0-tests keep stabilizing nicely. So after this 
>>one large change things may be a bit unstable for a while, but after 
>>that 1.0 should be very near :)
> 
> 
> I personally think one small issue in the current dovecot is kind of a 
> showstopper. If a user exceeded their quota, dovecot will just plain not
> work at all. So a user can also not delete their email to remedy the
> situation. 
> 
> This is what happens when a customer (without previously having used
> dovecot) connects:
> 
> A002 SELECT "INBOX"
> A002 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-
> 05-31 17:56:36]
> 
> The internal error is a 'quota exceeded'. 
> 
> I think at the very minimum someone should be able to delete email...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cor

I think you may find it works (users can delete mail) if you put the 
Dovecot indexes on separate filesystem (preferably unquota'd). I haven't 
tested it, though. It seems to me that it is similar to the mailbox on a 
read-only filesystem case.

Best Wishes,
Chris
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