Re: [Exim] Bug in quota calculation for maildir delivery

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: michael
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Bug in quota calculation for maildir delivery
On 18 Jan 2000 michael@??? wrote:

> I think there is a bug in 3.12 src/transports/appendfile.c around line
> 2241. With maildir, the message is first delivered to tmp, then the
> new size is calculated. Unfortunately, the code compares the new size,
> which includes tmp, _plus the message size_ with the quota. As such,
> you can fill up your mailbox with small messages, but you can not get
> a mail larger than half your quota.


Thanks for the report. I will investigate it in due course.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.