Impossible to move messages to trash when overquota

[tosi at hi.is]

> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:17:28AM -0000, tosi at hi.is wrote:
>> > This has come up before. The move command is actually a two step
>> operation where the file is first copied to the 'Trash' folder and
>> then deleted from the source directory. The copy operation fails
>> > because the user is over quota.
>> >
>>
>> Since the mailbox is all on the same filesystem, why not use hard
>> links to move the file when the move command is used, like sendmail
>> does, instead of copy and delete ? It would give better performance,
>> and take care of the overquota problem.
>
> 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 ? :)

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