On 18.3.2012, at 23.52, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: >>> "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! > > Can dovecot treat soft quota like hard quota for user then? > > Or better enforce quota based on filesystem quot information. With xfs I can > set quota but turn enforcement off. All fs quota counters work but no > enforcement is being made by xfs itself.
Yes, Dovecot does the quota enforcement itself. I'm not entirely sure if it uses soft or hard quota though.
