quota affected as well (was Re: [imp] I have Trash and trash folders)

Bill Hilburn bhilburn at frontier.net
Wed Apr 30 14:03:03 PDT 2003


This depends on all the software your using for mail, a lot of them must be 
compiled with --enable-trashquota otherwise they do not count anything in the 
trash folder or that has been marked as deleted, this is by design.


Quoting jkpsj <jkpsj at yahoo.com>:

> and i also discovered that, messages that was deleted (and moved to Trash)
> are not counted as part
> of quota. these was what i did:
> 1. sent several batches of email from Yahoo and watched my quota grew from
> yellow to red.
> 2. then (in imp) i did a select all and delete those messages.
> 3. immediately my quota usage dropped down to 0%.
> 4. i switched to the Trash folder and can see all deleted msgs are there.
> 
> (the quota was ok if courier's trash is set to  'Trash' and imp's trash is
> set to 'trash')
> 
> why does the quota does not work? i can 'try' to convince my users that they
> have to MANUALLY
> subscribe to Trash (unless i can get solution here :-) BUT this quota thingy
> is totally
> unacceptable. is this a courier problem?
> 
> OTOH, a cheapo solution that came to mind (while writing this email), is to
> set courier to empty
> the Trash folder, say, once a week, with IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7
> 
> but that is my last resort. please help asap.
> 
> --
> 
> --- jkpsj <jkpsj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > ok, and i set trash property in ~/imp/config/prefs.php as:
> > 
> > // trash folder
> > $_prefs['trash_folder'] = array(
> >     'value' => 'Trash',
> >     'locked' => true,
> >     'shared' => false,
> >     'type' => 'implicit'
> > );
> > 
> > BUT when i deleted an email, the Trash folder is NOT AUTOMATICALLY
> subscribe, ie i am not able
> > to
> > see the Trash folder when i clicked on the Folders link...until i do a
> 'Show Unscribed' and then
> > subscribing to it (Trash).
> > 
> > So how do i make the folder Trash being automatically subscribed then ?
> Please advise.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > --- lst_hoe at kwsoft.de wrote:
> > > Zitat von jkpsj <jkpsj at yahoo.com>:
> > > 
> > > > horde 2.2.1 / imp3.2 / courier-imap
> > > > 
> > > > my imapd of courier havae these entries:
> > > > ...
> > > > IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME=Trash
> > > > IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7
> > > > IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=0
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > my imp/config/prefs.php have these entries:
> > > > $_prefs['trash_folder'] = array(
> > > >     'value' => 'trash',
> > > >     'locked' => true,
> > > >     'shared' => false,
> > > >     'type' => 'implicit'
> > > > );
> > > > 
> > > > Now, when i 'Show Unsubscribed', i can see Trash as well as trash.
> > > > How do i correct this?
> > > > 
> > > > rgds.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Use the same name in Courier and IMP settings (case sensitive) and delete
> the 
> > > other T(t)rash.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Andreas
> > > 
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Bill Hilburn
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