On 21/11/2006, at 10:56 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
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 - just tell people how to do this in the mail client
they are using when this happens?
I guess it all depends on how amenable to education the users are.
But, if user education was all that was necessary, I don't think that
we would need quotas at all.
Regards,
Ben Marsh