[Dovecot] Dict quota timeout error: Has anything changed in the latest versions?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.2.2013, at 12.34, Alessio Cecchi <alessio at skye.it> wrote:

> Since dovecot 2.1.10-13 (but perhaps even before) when a new user log in via POP/IMAP or receive an email for the first time dovecot created the entry for the users in the table "quota" of dovecot database with quota usage and number of messages (before of this login/delivery the user has no entry in the quota table of dovecot DB).
> 
> After the update to 2.1.14 when a new user login or receive an email for the first time dovecot was unable to create (immediately) the entry in quota table and in the log print these errors:
> 
> Feb 12 11:05:41 pop3(alessio at domain.com): Error: read(/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/var/run/dovecot/dict) failed: Timeout after 30 seconds

I don't see any recent changes in this code, so I think it has been broken for a long time. Anyway, this fixes it:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/225c64ed0439