Words by MERIGHI Marcus [Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:24:27PM +0100]: > Hallo folks, > > qmail-1.03 with qmail-ldap-1.03-20060201.patch database is > openldap-server-2.3.11p4-bdb on OpenBSD 3.9 GENERIC.MP#0 i386. > > When I tried to set a users totals quota to 5 GB (no, I do not want to > discuss that ;-) I found a strange behaviour: > > 1) Change LDAP entry of $user to new size. > 2) empty $user/Maildir/maildirsize > 3) send message to $user. > 4) check content of $user/Maildir/maildirsize. > > I did this several times until I found this "magic" boundary: > > LDAP (mailQuotaSize) maildirsize (first line) > 4290000000 4290000000S,20000C > 4300000000 5032704S,20000C > 16000000000 3115098112S,20000C > > If you increase mailQuotaSize beyond 4300000000, the values stored in > maildirsize increase, too. But not to the values expected, as you can > see above. >
If you increase beyond 4Gb (4294967296) it will wraparound: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ c 4300000000-1024*1024*1024*4 5032704 (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ c 4300000000%4294967296 5032704 ) That's what happened. The same for the 3rd line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ c 16000000000%4294967296 3115098112 > I did a quick check with nrg4u.com, google and MARC, which did not come > up with any explanations, bugfixes or workarounds. > > What am I missing here? Any hints are very welcome! > You're missing the limit. > Thanks for your time, > > Max > > P.S.: I am not on the list, please include my address separately. > > -- > https://www.Tor.AT/~McMer/.signature > > Ich untersage hiermit a) die Verwendung meiner personenbezogenen Daten > zu anderen Zwecken als den in diesem Vorgang gegenstaendlichen sowie b) > die Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten. Die Nichtbefolgung > dieser Anweisung ist in Oesterreich gesetzeswidrig. Siehe hiezu das > Datenschutzgesetz (DSG) 2000 idgF., zu finden u.a. unter: > http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/taweb-cgi/taweb?x=d&o=d&v=bgbl&d=BGBL&i=13326 -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods." -- Thomas D. Pate
