[dev] Patch: imp/lib/Message.php

[Marc Jauvin]

Max Kalika <max at lsit.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
>
> > Quota is 100KB, User is using 99KB
> > User wants to delete 2KB message in INBOX.  Using imap_mail_move(), the
> > message is first copied to the trash, then deleted.  However, the copy
> > would cause the user to be at 101KB, and the server will not allow this.
>
> I might be wrong, but I don't think this is entirely true.  I think the
> server would allow this message to be written and then put the user over
> quota (this is speaking from cyrus experience).
>
> Here's a worse scenario:
> User is already over quota with 105KB in his/her mailbox (lets say quota is
> still 100KB).  And say the user now wants to delete a 2KB message by moving
> it to trash.  If you delete the message first, and expunge the mailbox, the
> user is still over quota by 3KB so the server will disallow any new
> messages and the consequent write-to-trash operation will fail -- message
> gone forever.

I would think this is true. I know losing a message you delete is not good, but
in case the Mailbox is already OVER quota, I don't really see a way out of
this.


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