quota corruption

[Erol YILDIZ]

Hi again,

I think I am very close to find the main reason of my weird mailbox 
problems. Today I tried to setup a corrupted mail account as a pop3 account 
and the client gave me 'Unable to lock maildrop'. I googled this error and 
found a reply on a mailing list which says this can be because of TCP 
timeout. When I saw this reply I remembered that I have changed our firewall 
apliance which had a static route rule to route the packages for the mail 
servers public IP address to another firewall apliance which has my mail 
server on its DMZ. I removed the old firewall apliance and installed a new 
one(which is netscreen), created the same static route rule and that day 
these weird problems started to came from the users. I guess there is a 
problem with the netscreens static routing because even if I request ssh to 
the public IP of the mail server, session drops suddenly if I keep the ssh 
client idle for a few seconds.

If anyone has an idea it will be appreciated.


>> When I first saw this problem I was suspicious about an outlook bug but
>> when
>> I saw that there are more than one users having the same problem I 
>> changed
>> my mind because we are using cyrus on sles9 for nearly 4 years and we
>> didnt
>> have such problems. But anyway I will check the mailboxes with a 
>> different
>> mail client. I am also thinking about disabling quota for all users for a
>> short time just to solve the problem until I setup a mor recent version 
>> of
>> cyrus on a different server. Is there a way to disable quota for all 
>> users
>> with a single step?
>
> I'm not sure but I think a brute force method is to remove all quota files
> in /var/lib/imap/quota (or wherever that directory is in on your server).
> Of course cyrus-imapd should be stopped while doing it. If I remember
> correctly I did this once to "fix" broken quota on a server. But don't
> blame me if it breaks your server...
>
> Simon
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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