Quota problems running 2.1.15

[Simon Brady]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Alec H. Peterson wrote:

> I've got a situation where quota -f deletes all quotas for mailboxes beyond 
> a certain point in the alphabet even though they exist.  This in turn 
> causes mail delivery to fail with a System I/O error for those mailboxes 
> until I re-create the quotas. However, running quota -f again causes the 
> deleting to take place again.
> 
> Any ideas of how I can fix this behavior?

I've seen this happen after a mailbox was manually deleted from the spool 
directory. quota would run through the users in order until it hit the 
corrupt one then abort, leaving all the remaining quotas in limbo.

Since reconstructing the mailbox didn't work, our "get things going before
the users lynch us" fix was to export the mailboxes db with ctl_mboxlist
-d, delete all references to the broken directory, rebuild with
ctl_mboxlist -u then rerun quota -f.

You should be able to identify the offending mailbox by observing where
quota gets up to before dying.

Good luck!

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Simon Brady                             mailto:simon.brady at otago.ac.nz
ITS Technical Services
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand