[Dovecot] 1.1.7: quota problem, unable to delete mails when quota exceeded

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Monday 15 of December 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 08:44 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When user exceeds it's quota then dovecot can't create it's files and
> > it's showing zero mails :( This also means that user is unable to delete
> > it's own mails. Sounds like kind-of bug, right?
> >
> > Dec 15 08:28:37 mbox1 dovecot: IMAP(xxx):
> > open(/var/mail/xxx/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded
> > Dec 15 08:28:37 mbox1 dovecot: IMAP(kdudus):
> > file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/xxx/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Disk quota
> > exceeded
>
> I don't think the mbox file should be modified if it's not locked. I
> suppose it's not very ideal either if user can't delete mails then, but
> at least the mailbox doesn't get corrupted.

I use maildirs only.

> Anyway, you most likely don't really need to use dotlocks at all. Just
> make sure that your MDA uses fcntl locks and set mbox_write_locks=fcntl.

Will look. Right now I'm trying to move CONTROL to other fs where quota 
doesn't apply to see what will happen.

> Also I think Dovecot v1.1 should be able to open the mailbox read-only
> even if it can't create the dotlock? Are you using v1.0?

1.1.7 as in subject but read-only won't help in deleting mails that cause 
quota being exceeded 8)

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