Unable to clear over quota mailbox

[Craig Ringer]

>>I'm having a problem where users who are over quota are unable to delete
>>messages to clear their mailboxes .I'm running Cyrus v2.1.13-Invoca-RPM
>>and IMP 3.2.1 on a RedHat 9.0 box .Any ideas on how to fix this ?
> 
> Fix your IMP config. Looks like your IMP tries to move mails to trash when
> you try to delete it. Moving to trash isn't possible when your mailbox is
> overquota. I don't know IMP but with Squirrelmail, we teach users to
> disable 'move to trash' in their preferences when overquota, delete mails
> and then enable 'move to trash' again.

I think this has been discussed before, as well. Somebody wanted to give 
the trash an independet quota to work around this problem, and I seem to 
remember that it was possible. You might want to search the archives.

Craig Ringer