[Dovecot] Catch22: user needs space to fix out of space condition

[Duane Hill]

Monday, August 29, 2011, 4:32:55 AM, Joseph wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>>> Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove
>>> the dotlocking method
>>>
>>>      http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000996.html
>>>
>>> Any comments on the (sole) use of POSIX fcntl() type locking?
>>
>> As long as you haven't used symlinks in your mboxes there's no problems
>> with fcntl locking with Dovecot (assuming there are no non-Dovecot
>> software writing to them).

> Thanks for the info.

> I don't meet the last criteria: some users have direct file access via
> pine and other mail readers.  There's also procmail, but I don't know
> what locking method it uses.  Reading the pine sources closely, I think
> it fakes fcntl() for NFS mailboxes.

Pine/Alpine knows IMAP. That's what I use locally on my server.

> I'm using dotlock_try which solves my immediate problem of allowing
> users to delete Email under full quota.

> The long term solution is to replace file access with kerberized IMAP
> access, but that's much further down the road.

> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

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