Over quota when not

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Nov 4 09:40:20 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:02 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:51:18PM +0000, Richard Gilbert wrote:
> > The 4.5 GB quota was subsequently reinistated.  Initially the quota file 
> > contained
> > which looks like the amount of mail received after the quota was 
> > reinstated.  After running quota -f it went back to a similar number as 
> > before, equivalent to 78% usage, but still with the "Mailbox is over 
> > quota" error.
> > How can I correct this problem?
> > Thank you in anticipation.
> Is Cyrus 2.2.x able to handle quotas over what can be stored in
> an integer? That certainly seems to be the about the typical size
> that 32-bit OS systems start having problems. I know that they
> fixed such a problem, but you would need to check the change logs
> for when and in which versions. Good luck.

I think this is it; we had the exact same problem with very large
quotas.  This issue is resolved in a recent update;  we are running
2.3.14-8 and large quotas are working.

I think that is Bug#2690
<https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2690>



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