What is this "boundary condition" and when does it come up?
We have the temp dir on a non-quota filesystem, and on the spool dir users 
have a hard quota 100k more than the soft quota.
Yet we still occasionnally end up with a user with a corrupted mail spool 
because somehow it went over quota, and when qpopper copies the spool back, 
it gets corrupted.
I have tried turning off the X-UIDL writing, but that hasn't helped.


At 06:54 PM 8/8/2002, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 09:12, Alan W. Rateliff, II wrote:
>
> > I actually have QPopper use a different directory for the temporary spool,
> > that helped with quotas in the past.  However, now when QPopper goes to
> > reconstruct the mailfile, a box that exceeds the quota becomes garbage, or
> > doesn't rebuild at all.
>
>Quotas are applied per filesystem. So put the temp spool on a partition
>with quotas not enabled. There's still a boundary condition where the
>spool might grow slightly during a POP, so leave some margin in your
>limits to keep from getting too close to the hard limit.

Michael Kolos
Colba.Net Inc.

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