[Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize

[Jose Luis Marin Perez]

Thanks for your answers. 

 I told you that before migrating from Courier to Dovecot deleted mails (With flag T and not purged) were considered when calculating the quota. 

 There is a way that considers Dovecot mails deleted (not purged) to calculate the quota?

Thanks

Jose Luis

> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:11:46 -0300
> From: eduardo at kalinowski.com.br
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize
> 
> On Qui, 02 Jul 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
> > Thanks for your response Eduardo.
> >
> >  Apologies to the list by the rush and lack of information when  
> > reporting a problem.
> >
> > One of the webmails is configured so that when delete some
> > mail move to Trash directory, I have no problem here because I've
> > configured Dovecot to ignore this folder to quota
> >
> >  The other
> > two webmails are not configured to use the Trash directory and when you
> > delete some mail will be maintained in the INBOX but it shows shading
> > and the server adds the flag T:
> >
> >  1244457746.11461.domain.com, S = 5413:2, ST
> >
> >  So no updates maildirsize and quota does not change, this may  
> > result in the accounts quickly reach 100% usage.
> 
> The quote does not change because the mail is not deleted. It's only  
> marked as deleted (T flag). Once the folder is expunged (that's how  
> IMAP call it; your webmail mail give a different name for this action)  
> all mails flagged as deleted are actually deleted and space is released.
> 
> The easiest solution would be to use a Trash folder also for this  
> domain. Or, if you do not want that, you'll have to instruct your  
> users to expunge their folders when they want to claim space. I  
> believe there is also a plugin that should do automatic expunging, but  
> I don't known when it's triggered.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
> eduardo at kalinowski.com.br
> 

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