On Mon, 10 May 2004, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> > Apparently, the Courier imap daemon does not treat 0 in the maildirsize
> > file as "no quota", but as "zero quota", and what it wants is for there
> > to be no maildirsize file when there is no quota. I have therefore been
> > asked to change Exim's behaviour.
>
> Now, this doesn't seem right. I'm using courier-imap 3.0.3 on my
> servers, and it appears to treat 0 in the maildirsize file as "no
> quota" and it doesn't enforce any quota. I am not a C programmer, but
> a look at the source code of courier-imap seems to agree with my
> observation. From file maildir/maildirquota.h:
>
> struct maildirquota {
> off_t nbytes; /* # of bytes, 0 - unlimited */
> int nmessages; /* # of messages, 0 - unlimited */
> };
[snip]
> However, courier-imap maintains the maildirsize file even if the quota
> is 0, which is what exim also does. So I believe exim is correct and
> there's no need to change it. Courier-imap's Maildir quota
> implementation is, after all, the reference implementation.
Oliver, it was you that reported:
| If quota (expanded) is set to 0, quota should be inactive. Exim creates a
| maildirsize file with '0S,0C' - an IMAP server (I tested courier-imapd)
| treats that as 0 bytes, 0 mails - not as unlimited.
|
| In my opinion if quota is unset no maildirsize file should be created -
| that would fix this bug (at least with courier-impad, maybe others).
So I have two people telling me two different things. :-(
Until this is resolved, I think my best plan is not to make any
change...
Philip
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