Impossible to move messages to trash when overquota

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, 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 ???

Because delete and then expunge is the IMAP model, and implementing a
trash mailbox on top of it (with a literal trash mailbox) is a gross hack.

There are ways to implement this in an IMAP-friendly manner that don't
result in this behavior, but they are still pretty gross hacks.

> Is there a workaround for this?

Don't use trash mailboxes.  Or don't use quotas.  Take your pick.

-Rob

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