Unjustified 'Mailbox is at XX% of quota' messages in Thunderbird

[Simon Matter]

> Eric Luyten írta:
>> On Thu, May 6, 2010 10:46 am, Kõvári János wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Morgan írta:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Kõvári János wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a problem again.
>>>>> Just today, all my users, who are using the same shared folder, are
>>>>> getting "Mailbox is at 93% of quota" (and increasing as they put mail
>>>>> into
>>>>> the shared folder) messages in Thunderbird (v.2.0.0.24 on Vista X64).
>>>>> This has started when one user was putting several dozen bigger
>>>>> emails
>>>>> into the shared folder, which then reached a "mysterious" level,
>>>>> where
>>>>> warnings are sent out. The problem is: this shared folder has a 5GB
>>>>> quota
>>>>> limit and it contains ~930MB of mail only. The quota file says 5GB,
>>>>> Thunderbird says 5GB,
>>>>> Cyrus module in Webmin also says the Quota is 5GB, and the usage is
>>>>> at
>>>>> 19%...  Everything says the Quota is 5GB and it is 19% used. But the
>>>>> messages still pop up. It seems, the server somehow thinks the quota
>>>>> is
>>>>> 1GB, of which indeed
>>>>> 93% is in use, but I have no clue where this comes from. It can't be
>>>>> confused with user mailbox quotas, because those are at 200MB. The
>>>>> shared
>>>>> folder is stored on a separate partition with hundreds of gigabytes
>>>>> of
>>>>> free space. I have reconstructed the mailboxes and folder, and
>>>>> re-checked
>>>>> the quotas etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone has any ideas, I'd be glad to read them! Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Which version of Cyrus are you running?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Cyrus-imapd 2.2.13
>>>
>>
>>
>> János,
>>
>>
>> I recall there being a "4 GB wraparound" issue with Cyrus quota in
>> version 2.2
>>
>>
>> Eric.
>>
>>
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> I saw that on 2.1. Hasn't this been fixed in 2.2 already?

It has been fixed in 2.3. There are patches floating around to make it
work on 2.2 but maybe your distribution didn't include them.

Simon

> In that case, I must leave it without a quota. :(
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Janos
>
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