Impossible to move messages to trash when overquota

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 tosi at hi.is wrote:

> > There is no 'move' command in the IMAP RFC iirc. A 'move' operation is
> > just client side semantics for 'copy and then delete'.
> >
>
> True. Dumb me :-)
>
> Perhaps it should be implemented ? :)

This has been discussed on the IMAP list before, and it really isn't
possible, brief explanation available here (and there's a whole thread to
go with it about trash folders):

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.imap&msg=9816

The thread is rooted at this URL, and it discusses various ways (though
they feel sort of hackish to me) of doing a virtual trash mailbox:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.imap&msg=9805

-Rob

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