[Users] Mailbox types changed from IMAP to POP

Colin Leroy colin at colino.net
Tue Aug 30 16:30:21 CEST 2016


On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:51:21 +0200, Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk>
wrote:

> you ran out of disk space, and Claws Mail
> was unable to write out some of the config files. There's not much we
> can do in this case - we could attempt to revert all the
> unsuccessfully-written files to previously saved version, but in
> situation with zero free disk space, even that operation is likely to
> fail, either partially or completely.

We don't do that, we write new configuration files separately, and if
it worked, we rename them to overwrite the old ones.

This shouldn't happen on disk full, as rename() *should* be atomic.
-- 
Colin



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