Quinn Comendant wrote:
> This week we've received a flood of clients complaining about vpopmail's
> "Your mailbox on the server is now more than 90% full" messages, when they
> were nowhere near over quota. There have been about 3-people-a-day for the
> past week noting this, and each time I check the `vuserinfo` command and also
> `du -sk /path/to/Maildir` both report usage well below quota (although the
> two numbers *are* often different, WTF?).
>
> In each case, I check the domain-quota too, compared with `du -sk
> /path/to/domain` and the user's domain is always well under quota too (space
> and files).
>
> This may be explained that the users received a few BIG emails they
> subsequently downloaded and removed from the server before I could analyze
> their usage. But with such a wave of complaints and none before now I'm
> paranoid something is wrong with the Courier-Vpopmail quota reporting.
>
> Has anybody noticed this before? Are vpopmail quotas buggy? Am I paranoid?
>
> Quinn
>
I think quotas are possibly buggy. You're not paranoid. I'd start
investigating by looking into how it's keeping track of used space.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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