[imp] delete emails directly and permanently

[Arminas]

2008/8/27 Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood at ed.ac.uk>:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Arminas wrote:
>
>> 2008/8/27 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>:
>>>
>>> On 25.08.08 10:12, Khanh Truong wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My IMAP server enforces quotas for users. The problem is, when users
>>>> reach
>>>> their quota, they cannot delete messages to reduce their usage.
>>>
>>> I think this is the problem you should try to solve, not work around...
>>>
>>
>> But this is not mail server's care. It's all about client programs. If
>> quota is reached so user must not be able to move his emails to any
>> other folder except deleting permanently.
>
> It is the server. The client can't do anything about it.  The only way you
> can prevent this in the client is to disable the setting that allows people
> to move mail to a Trash folder when deleting messages. If you do that then
> you will force people to use the IMAP method of marking messages to delete
> and then purge. Depending on your IMAP server this may solve your problem,
> though that will be determined by how you impose quotas (system quotas or
> within the IMAP server itself) and how the IMAP server carries out the
> delete (if it needs to make a backup copy of the folder during the deletion
> process or not).
>
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> Information Services, The University of Edinburgh
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