[imp] user quotas and imap behaviour

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Oscar Renalias <oscare@fib.upc.es>:

> The situation is as follows. We have a quota of 1mb for our users in the
> mail spool in /var/spool/mail, and then 5mb in their home dir. Whenever
> they want to read the messages, with IMP or NS Messenger, the imap
> server tries to move the messages from the spool to their home. If this
> move succeeds, no problem, but when they haven't got enough space left
> to move all the new mail to their home, the operation fails with a "disk
> quota exceeded" error (logical). But then, neither IMP nor Messenger
> display the messages in the inbox (as if it was empty), and I've been
> told in the uw-imap mailing list that this is the client's fault.

Can you find _any_ clients that work? pine in IMAP mode, maybe? If so, can you 
trace the IMAP traffic and find out what's different? Any more information as 
to _why_ it fails?

-chuck

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