[Dovecot] quota issue POP3

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Mar 25 00:21:48 EET 2005


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.

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