Re: [Exim] maildir_use_size_file and zero quota (views sough…

Hi all,

> 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:

Okay. Now I'm totally confused. I talked to Sam Varshavchik (the author of
courier) - see what he's answered:

OS> It seems that courier-imap changed the way of handling 0-quota in the
OS> maildirsize file. I was told that 3.0.3 handling 0 as unlimited. But my
OS> 1.4.3 (debian woody package) is handling 0-quota as 0 byte.

SV> 0 was never interpreted as unlimited.

(OS = me, SV = Sam Varshavchik)


Something is really weird here.


Cheers,
Oliver