moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

[John Madden]

> 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?

John





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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden at ivytech.edu

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