Impossible to move messages to trash when overquota

[Scott Russell]

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'.

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