quota problems on cyrus imapd 2.2.12

[Larry Rosenbaum]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:info-cyrus-
> bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Marlys Nelson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:53 AM
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: quota problems on cyrus imapd 2.2.12
> 
> We have just upgraded from cyrus imapd 2.1.10 running on linux Red Hat
> 7.2 to version 2.2.12 running on solaris 8.  Since this upgrade, the
> quotas for users have been a problem.
> 
> I've run the quota -f command but it seems that sometimes it fixes a
> user's usage and sometimes it will double their usage.
> 
> The archives seem to hint that this behavior has been seen before but I
> didn't find any solutions.
> 
> I am using a pre-packaged version of all the cyrus utilities found at
> blastwave.org so I'm not sure how things were compilednor if any patches
> have been applied.
> 
> Right now, I've set everyone's quota to 1,000,000 to at least keep email
> working.  But, this is not going to be a long-term solution.

Is anybody using more than 4GB of storage?  Cyrus imapd 2.2.12 stores quota
usage, in bytes, in an unsigned long and so can't keep track of usage over
4GB.  You may need to go to v2.3.3, which uses a long long int.