Re: [exim] Exim, Dovecot, mdir and hardlinks - a true story

On 2019-08-14 at 12:24 -0400, Phil Pennock via Exim-users wrote:
> On 2019-08-14 at 12:54 +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> > Do we need a fast/poor quota method for cases where the size-file
> > cannot be used?
>
> Just to raise the possibility to see if others can spot approaches which
> make this feasible rather than a giant can of worms: direct support for
> filesystem quotas in Exim, using soft limits set to match Dovecot's.

This was a stupid suggestion on my part.

In any sort of spool delivery system like this, one OS runtime user is
used and owns all the files. OS quotas won't help at all. This is
_why_ Exim supports other quota systems.

Sorry,
-Phil