CentOS - Nov 2005 - Quota and Squirrelmail

Hello,

I have CentOS with quotas installed and make the users read their
mails through squirrelmail. So I've been applied quotas in 2
partition, one for home, and other for /var/spool/mail/ directory.

the problem is when the quota is over, the inbox in squirrelmail is
locked so the user can't delete their mails and free the space. And
all is frozen for them.

Don't know If the question is in the right place.

But could you suggest something. Any thing would be very appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Alain Reguera wrote on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:59:19 -0500:
> the problem is when the quota is over, the inbox in squirrelmail is 
> locked so the user can't delete their mails and free the space. And 
> all is frozen for them.
AFAIK this is a general problem with quota. It doesn't apply to 
Squirrelmail only. It happens the same way with the POP daemons I know. 
The reason is that the mailbox file gets temporarily moved for opening it 
and thus for a short amount of time two files would exist and that user be 
over quota. Behavior may be better if you use maildir format, don't know.

Kai

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