moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

[Ken Murchison]

Lars Kristiansen wrote:

>>>Sounds like a recipe for lost messages should anything go wrong.. What
>>>happens if as you FETCH, new messages arrive and take up just enough
>>>quota
>>>that the STORE would put it over quota? What do you do with the message?
>>
>>4th and 15.  Punt.
>>
>>That's certainly a tough situation.  So what *is* the solution?
> 
> 
> A thought out of the dark:
> 
> Would it be possible for cyrus
>  to hardlink instead of plain copy
>  and not bother check for quota when COPY,
>  if file system supports hardlinks anyway?

Cyrus already does a link() if possible, but the message size is always 
counted against the quota, which I believe it should.

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