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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:40 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Done that and now I see a lot of " Expunged message reappeared, giving a new 
> UID (old uid=10753, file=...)" ugh :-/
> 
> I guess now imap clients will see these as new messages?
> 
> Also ": IMAP(bo): /var/lib/dovecot/control/xxx/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist: 
> Duplicate file entry at line..."
> 
> Weird, these are fresly created control files and now they contain duplicates.

So all your control files were being recreated, but index files weren't?
I guess that confused Dovecot somehow. The error messages probably
aren't exactly correct, but you created a broken condition anyway. :)

> Last question, what permissions are needed for /var/lib/dovecot/control/ if 
> it's used as CONTROL= and users use different uid/gids? Right now I have 
> a+rwx which doesn't look nice and root:root 660 also didn't make dovecot 
> happy.

I guess you could make it also +t. There's really no better way since
the directories aren't created as root.
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