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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2019-08-15 13:47:04 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2019-08-15 14:08:33 +0100
commit9c6881f8f7cd820300c035a24d2d34567afc2040 (patch)
tree7f5ae6c0e0c2599eab7093487946d1200984d92a /doc
parente9ae2091541400df1d74a2e4ade73ce8c8f51a3e (diff)
Appendfile: when evaluating quota use attemd to link counts
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt9
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog5
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 8bba6feb2..63db8ef70 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -22859,6 +22859,15 @@ sometimes add other information onto the ends of message filenames.
Section &<<SECID136>>& contains further information.
+.new
+This option should not be used when other message-handling software
+may duplicate messages by making hardlinks to the files. When that is done Exim
+will count the message size once for each filename, in contrast with the actual
+disk usage. When the option is not set, calculating total usage requires
+a system-call per file to get the size; the number of links is then available also
+as is used to adjust the effective size.
+.wen
+
.option quota_warn_message appendfile string&!! "see below"
See below for the use of this option. If it is not set when
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 6d1b2631b..c3972d2da 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -164,12 +164,15 @@ JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
them in our smtp response.
-JH/35 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
+JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
+JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
+ link count into consideration.
+
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