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

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 6:34 PM Phil Pennock via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Yes, but OS quotas _do_ help in the case where mail is owned by a specific
Unix user ID. Additionally, there may be group quotas.

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Jan