[imp] mailbox overquota and move to trash -> something to improve?

[LALOT Dominique]

2012/1/27 Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>

> Quoting ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>
>  ----- Message from LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com> ---------
>>   Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:10:52 +0100
>>   From: LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [imp] mailbox overquota and move to trash -> something to
>> improve?
>>     To: imp at lists.horde.org
>>
>>
>>  2012/1/26 LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'am faced to some students being unable to delete their mails because
>>>> they are overquota.. I changed to simply flag deleted but users
>>>> complained.
>>>> I red articles on the net and there is no way to move and not copy, then
>>>> delete which cause the problem.
>>>> So, when having an error such as overquota, could horde simply flag mail
>>>> as deleted, then the user will be able to delete mails without any
>>>> assistance..
>>>> Is it difficult to do?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  May be the solution could be to use virtual trash, but I don't
>>> understand
>>> how to do that using prefs.php. Looking in database, the data is binary..
>>>
>>
>> Ask the users not to use Trash folder temporarily using their preference
>> option.  So, they get option to delete which makes them 'mark as deleted'
>> and ask them to purge.
>>
>
> This was actually technically impossible until RFC 5530 defined an
> OVERQUOTA response code.  I've just added code to IMP 5.1 that will
> workaround this issue by permanently deleting the messages instead of
> moving to Trash.  However, this is entirely dependent on the IMAP server (I
> think Dovecot supports it).
>
> Alternatively, use a IMAP server that supports "soft" quotas.
>
>
OK, I will see in that direction. Any hard things that thousand of students
need to do, lead to heavy support. So we need to automate..
We have cyrus imap

Thanks

Dom


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Dominique LALOT
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