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

2011-08-29 Thread 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 >>> >>>

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

2011-08-29 Thread Joseph Tam
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

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

2011-08-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 18:30 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Joseph Tam wrote: > > > Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as > > a locking method is the way to go. > > Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove > the dotlockin

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

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Joseph Tam wrote: Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as a locking method is the way to go. Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove the dotlocking method http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine

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

2011-08-26 Thread Joseph Tam
Thanks to all who've made suggestions. It seems removing dotlocks as a locking method is the way to go. There is another dotlock locking variant mentioned in 10-mail.conf that seems to address this situation for those that can't get away from dotlocks: # dotlock_try: Same as dotlock,

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

2011-08-25 Thread Karsten Becker
On 08/25/2011 07:38 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 25.8.2011, at 5.12, David Warden wrote: > >> In your mail_location you can specify a different control and index >> directory as a place where the user has no quotas. I'm not quite sure which >> it is (control or index) that says where the dotloc

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

2011-08-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.8.2011, at 5.12, David Warden wrote: > In your mail_location you can specify a different control and index directory > as a place where the user has no quotas. I'm not quite sure which it is > (control or index) that says where the dotlock file goes but it should be one > of them. Nope,

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

2011-08-24 Thread David Warden
On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Joseph Tam wrote: > > A mail user reported that he filled up his INBOX (despite reminders he > was approaching his filesystem quota), and furthermore, he could not > fix the situation because he couldn't expunge message he marked for > deletion. > > The dovecot logs

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

2011-08-24 Thread Patrick Domack
Don't use dotlock files. Method that generally works nice also is to start rejecting email for the user when they are at 99% capacity, so you leave just alittle room for that kind of thing left. Quoting Joseph Tam : A mail user reported that he filled up his INBOX (despite reminders he w

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

2011-08-24 Thread Joseph Tam
A mail user reported that he filled up his INBOX (despite reminders he was approaching his filesystem quota), and furthermore, he could not fix the situation because he couldn't expunge message he marked for deletion. The dovecot logs revealed the cause dovecot: imap(user): Error: open(