It is not such a rare occurance. I have had this problem for a while - usually we get about one user per week where I have to restore their mail spool from the .pop file. In my case, their spool file ends up with a bunch of characters at the beginning, making it even bigger. At least we can still recover their mail, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having the temp directory on a different (non quota) partition. It would be nice if something could be done - like not putting in any X-UIDL headers that would bring the spool overquota.
Michael Kolos Administrateur de R�seaux Network Administrator ColbaNet Inc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clifton Royston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Perrault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Implementing user quotas / Expiring Email > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:25:35AM -0400, Steve Perrault wrote: > > My concern is what occurs when a user is at quota. How does Qpopper make > > room to add the X-UIDL lines if the person is already at quota? > > This would be a problem, though it should only happen if someone is > *exactly* a few bytes short of the hard quota, or if they have been > over the "soft quota" long enough that it has set into stone, and > they're not deleting any mail. > > Remember, the X-UIDL additions are only updated back into the main > spool at the end of the session. The POP session should still be able > to complete if they're over quota provided that they deleted enough > messages to get them back under quota. I think. That's one boundary > condition I didn't think to test, I admit. > > -- Clifton > > -- > Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau >
