[Dovecot] quota plugin enhancement request

[Andrew Richards]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 03:22, Michael Tibben wrote:
> In Squirrelmail when a message is deleted, it seems to be copied to
> the Trash folder *before* it is deleted from the current folder.
> However if it is a large message being deleted and the mailbox is
> close to its quota limit, it means dovecot will deny the copy
> operation as the quota will be exceeded if the message is copied
>
> Because of this, I am wondering if it is possible to have an option
> for the quota plugin to track, but not enforce the quota.  This is
> because I don't require quota enforcement on IMAP, as Postfix will
> enforce quota on incoming mail anyway.

I explored almost the same issue with Dovecot / Squirrelmail a few 
weeks back in the thread,

  Dovecot - Issue with Maildir++ quotas

and found a very useful page,

  http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/DisableTrashcan

also see the rest of the above thread for some more angles on this.

Best regards,

Andrew.