[Dovecot] Quota Issue

[Peter Fraser]

He used Thunderbird to delete them. I checked and they were deleted,
not just flagged.


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2010-04-21 3:17 PM, Peter Fraser wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm using dovecot version 1.2.4_1 and I noticed something strange. I
>> checked the list but so far I haven't found anything that exactly fits
>> my setup. I'm using maildirs and ldap as a backend to authenticate. A
>> user went over quota, realized it and proceeded to delete a lot of
>> email. Even now, after about 15 minutes, the quota indicator is still
>> showing that he is over quota even though the users mailbox size is
>> down by over 200MB. Why isn't Dovecot showing the change, and is there
>> a way around this?
>
> How did he delete them? Maybe they are just flagged for deletion but
> haven't been PURGED yet?
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>