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

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On 13/11/2018 21:07, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
>> 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?

Yes.

I remember there was some similar problem and solution/workaround was to
keep CONTROL= files on non-quota parition.

> Aki


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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )