On 18.3.2012, at 23.00, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox > > "Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is > later > freed in "purge" step. This is typically done in a nightly cronjob when > there's less disk I/O activity. " > > What happens if there is filesystem hard quota that is exceeded? Will dovecot > allow to delete mails to free space without a need to wait for cronjob to do > the purge?
No. Also the purging itself won't work, because it needs to write new data first before it can delete old data. Don't run out of disk space!
