[Dovecot] Maybe wrong quota recalculation behaviour on overquota delivery try

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Sep 3 17:26:40 EEST 2010


On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 08:19 +0200, Luca Palazzo wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> thanks you for reply.
> I'm pretty sure you are right. Quota recalculation based on Maildir++ 
> standard is too I/O intensive for our system because we have lot of 
> maildirs migrated from old system. Mail files are missing often size in 
> filename so now I understand why so much stat calls.
> Is there any script/util in dovecot to fix filenames?

The problem with changing filenames is that it changes also the maildir
base filename. So that requires changing also dovecot-uidlist. But it
gets worse if you use base filenames as POP3 UIDLs, then a change in it
causes POP3 clients to redownload those mails.




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