Hello everyone,
Please forgive me if this question has already been answered, and feel free
to point me to the appropriate place for that answer--I've searched the
newsgroups, the web, Qualcomm's site, and just about everywhere else, but
all I can find is the same *question* with no acceptable *answer*...so here
it goes.
I'm running Red Hat 7.0 and Qpopper 3.1. I have disk quotas turned on for
my POP users. Yesterday, I noticed that one user was getting an error
message in the maillog:
---snip---
mypopuser at mydomain.com (x.x.x.x): -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Unable to copy mail
spool file, quota exceeded (122)
This definitely caught my attention because I just finished writing a whole
utility to send warnings when quota soft limits are breached, and I should
receive a copy of the warnings. I checked, and sure enough, the soft limit
was *almost* reached but not yet. After searching the Net, it seems clear
that this has to do with Qpopper doing a chown while copying the mail spool
file, and I've learned that soft limit grace periods are [somehow!]
ignored. Hence, the operation fails immediately instead of initiating a
grace period. This is definitely unacceptable. The only solutions I've
seen put forth are to turn off quotas or put the spool temp files in a
partition that is not under quota restrictions. This is not entirely
unreasonable, but it is not possible right now in my setup. Does *anybody*
have any other solution here, to get Qpopper/the OS to honor the grace
period during the pop operation? Any help is greatly appreciated. FYI,
upgrading Qpopper *may* be a possibility, but I'd rather not (won't bore
you with the details).
Many TIA,
Dan
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