moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

[Dave McMurtrie]

John Madden wrote:
>>Because IMAP doesn't provide a "move" operation for messages.  Your
>>client is probably first doing an append of the message to the
>>destination folder (which is what's putting it over quota) then storing
>>the delete flag of the original message and expunging.
> 
> 
> I'm sure we've all had problems with this.
> 
> Is it wise to modify these clients to instead FETCH, delete/expunge, then STORE?

I guess that would solve this particular problem.  It does present a
different problem, though.  If there's a failure (system crash, mail
client crash, etc) after you expunge the original message and before you
append it again, you've lost a message.

Thanks,

Dave
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