What happens when users find that they can store stuff in the Trash dir when they are out of quota in the other folders? Such behavior would make trash a haven for getting around quota limits. You could perhaps threaten users with periodic enforced purges of the trash but that wouldn't go down well (At least where I work).
I'm curious... we don't use quotas here, but I've been thinking about implementing them.
We also use Thunderbird as our preferred mail client, and while I agree that our users would *not* be happy about losing the ability to keep a weeks worth of trashed mail, Thunderbird does (don't most?) have the ability to delete a message immediately, bypassing the 'Move to trash' operation, by simply holding the 'Shift' key while deleting a message.
How does/would dovecot react if a user did this? If dovecot allowed the operation, then wouldn't a simple user education be a viable workaround this happens?
- just tell people how to do this in the mail client they are using when
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Best regards,
Charles