dovecot lmtp thinks that "disk quota exceeded" is "internal error"

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 13 November 2018 at 22:06 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/11/2018 15:54, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > 2.2.36 (not migrated to 2.3 yet) reports such problem:
> > 
> >> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, Error: open(/var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock1bf6ad16b7b8b703) failed: Disk quota exceeded
> >> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, Error: Couldn't create mailbox list lock /var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock: file_create_locked(/var/mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock) failed: safe_mkstemp(/var
> >> /mail/xxx/mailboxes.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded
> >> Nov 13 15:50:58 mbox dovecot: lmtp(xxx): session=<ACYRCtLk6ltiEQAALZVUYQ>, msgid=<db663455902e1b3faa53f344dc353870 at xxx>: save failed to open mailbox INBOX.Spam: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more informat
> >> ion. [2018-11-13 15:50:58]
> > 
> > Looks a bug to me since disk exceeded is not a internal error. Shouldn't
> > lmtp return over quota info instead of error?
> > 
> 
> Just to confirm - dovecot 2.3.3 - the same behaviour, internal error
> 
> -- 
> Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

Are you using quota:fs?

Aki