dovecot - Oct 2006 - Problem with indexes

Hello.

Dovecot is really good software but I have one big problem with indexes. 
I have server with a lot of mailboxes - filesystem has quota enabled and 
I can't resign it from different reasons. When mailbox achieve quota 
size and user wants to pick mails via pop3, error "-ERR Mailbox is in 
inconsistent state, please relogin." is given. I know it's because 
dovecot can't write indexes. Is it possible to force dovecot to write 
indexes with definite owner/group f.e dovecot/dovecot and not 
owner/group of mailbox? I can set quotas for user dovecot to unlimited 
and problem would disappear. Thanks in advance for any answers.

Best regards -
Chris.

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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, crs wrote:
> Dovecot is really good software but I have one big problem with indexes. I 
> have server with a lot of mailboxes - filesystem has quota enabled and I 
> can't resign it from different reasons. When mailbox achieve quota size
and
> user wants to pick mails via pop3, error "-ERR Mailbox is in
inconsistent
> state, please relogin." is given. I know it's because dovecot
can't write
> indexes. Is it possible to force dovecot to write indexes with definite 
> owner/group f.e dovecot/dovecot and not owner/group of mailbox?
Hmm, just a random suggestion, but another possible idea would
be for dovecot to immediately delete the index it's writing if
a write() fails.  If there's a write error, It's not going to
be a valid index anyway, so it might as well be deleted and
be allowed to be automatically rebuilt later (if possible).

   - Logan

Hi Chris,

If you are using some of the recent RCs, then this 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/FS will help you.

Regards,
Dumitru

crs wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Dovecot is really good software but I have one big problem with 
> indexes. I have server with a lot of mailboxes - filesystem has quota 
> enabled and I can't resign it from different reasons. When mailbox 
> achieve quota size and user wants to pick mails via pop3, error "-ERR 
> Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin." is given. I know 
> it's because dovecot can't write indexes. Is it possible to force 
> dovecot to write indexes with definite owner/group f.e dovecot/dovecot 
> and not owner/group of mailbox? I can set quotas for user dovecot to 
> unlimited and problem would disappear. Thanks in advance for any answers.
>
> Best regards -
> Chris.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> PS. >>> http://link.interia.pl/f19a6