[Dovecot] "failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Not enough disk space." with large mail

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 23:06, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Charles Marcus put forth on 6/10/2010 10:19 AM:
>> On 2010-06-10 3:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> BTW, anyone who has a 44MB INBOX should be slapped repeatedly about the
>>> cranium and then educated about POP and IMAP, and how each should be used.
>>
>> So, Stan, how much will you charge to come do the honors for me?
>>
>> It will probably be in the neighborhood of 50 users with Inboxes over
>> 1GB, some over 5GB...
>
> O-M-G!?  We may as well skip the punishment/re-education of these folks and
> march them straight to the firing squad. ;)
>
> You're talking just _Inbox_ of those sizes right?  No sub folders?  If so,
> yes, definitely to the firing squad they go. :)

How about just autodeleting INBOX after N days?  I think I might just
go ahead and automate that on the server ... but just move the
"deleted" mail to a real "Trash" folder (maybe with a different name).
 Hmmm ... what to pick for N.