Re: [exim] Maildir Quota excluding Trash folder.

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: listrcv
CC: exim-users, Michael Haardt
Assumpte: Re: [exim] Maildir Quota excluding Trash folder.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, listrcv wrote:

> Exim would create lots of directories when in some errorneous setup a
> string expansion (or whatever) unexpectedly yields a subdirectory that
> is maybe a thousand or a twentythousand levels deep.


Lots of things start failing when path names get longer than 256
characters (or perhaps 1024). I think 256 is a POSIX limit.

> It could end up in running into some file system limit (like no more
> free inodes though space left on the device) after creating 199999
> directories, fail the delivery and leave a mess of a useless directory
> tree around. That might also block deliveries to other users.


If you are worried about this, set

create_directory = no

I personally do not think it is worth implementing anything more
sophisticated.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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