Impossible to move messages to trash when overquota

[tosi at hi.is]

> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:14:38PM +0100, Stefano Tabacchiera wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> my box is running cyrus-2.1.11 and I set up quota for my users.
>> When someone is overquota, it's impossible to MOVE messages to Trash
>> and  then delete them. The only way is to NOT use Trash, mark messages
>> as  deleted and then expunge.
>> Question is: why ???
>
> 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.

>> Is there a workaround for this?
>> Almost all of my users use 'move-to-Trash->then-empty-Trash'. So I
>> dont  want to force them to change.
>> Any clue?
>
> This is an education issue for your users. Show them how to recover from
> an over quota situation without using the move-to-Trash features of
> their client. Also setup cyrus to provide warnings to users who are
> approaching their quota limits.
>
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