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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:04 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I didn't read the error message closely enough.

> > 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.

Yes, changing the CONTROL to non-quota partition is the only way to
solve this for now. I suppose it should be possible to have the existing
mails visible though, but mails not listed in dovecot-uidlist can't
really be made visible.
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