[Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

Sven Hartge sven at svenhartge.de
Fri Aug 24 16:13:46 EEST 2012


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 24.8.2012, at 15.02, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Ignoring the content (or increasing the quota) of the Trash folder is
>> easy and no problem, but ignoring deleted messages seems impossible
>> without changes to the code.
> ..
>> So I propose an additional flag for the quota_rule config option to be
>> able to enable a more lax interpretation of the quota enforcement:
>> 
>>  quota_rule = *:storage=1G:ignoredeleted
>>  quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M

> This can't be implemented race-condition-free without huge changes to code.

Damn, too bad.

I know for sure either my users or my 1st level support team are going
to kill me if I don't find a solution.

Is is possible to forcibly expunge a message at once, directly after a
client has marked it as deleted? Kind of the opposite of the
lazy_expunge plugin?

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.



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