Bryan Irvine writes:

On 2/6/06, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bryan Irvine writes:

> On 2/6/06, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bryan Irvine writes:
>>
>> > On 2/6/06, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Bryan Irvine writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On 2/6/06, Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, February 6, 2006 4:46 pm, Bryan Irvine wrote:
>> >> >> > I have a user that is getting a quota warning about once or twice a
>> >> >> > week, even though he is only nowhere near his quota.  This 
particular user
>> >> >> > has an insane quota limit. 20,000 message and 1G.  He is at 44% of 
his
>> >> >> > size limit and 54% of his message limit.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I have quotas set to sent a notify at 95%.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I am calling maildrop from Postfix like so:
>> >> >> > flags=Rhu user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} -w 
95
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What OS/distribution/filesystem are you using?  What does du report for
>> >> >> the user's Maildir?  Is anything else reading/writing to the Maildir?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > This system is running OpenBSD, du shows 483M. ls -1R| wc -l counts 
11450 files.
>> >> >
>> >> > The only thing that writes to the Maildir is maildrop.
>> >>
>> >> And what exactly reads from the maildir?
>> >
>> > Courier pop/imap is the only thing.
>>
>> Well, you'll just have to look at the maildirsize file to see if you can
>> figure out where the disconnect is coming from.
>>
>> I think some old versions of Courier's POP3 server did not update the quota
>> after deleting messages.  If you're running old code, update something more
>> recent.
>
> hmm the version I'm running is 3.0.5. Is that considered old?  I see
> the current version is 4.

Yes, it's old.

OK I'll set up a test machine and do some test upgrades on it.  In the
meantime is there something I can do manually?  Can I use cron to run
some update script?  It's only this user.

I think that running maildirquota on the maildir will recompute the quota.


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