[Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.8.2012, at 1.49, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> How about just disabling the quota enforcing and doing a nightly run
>> of some type of enforcing (sending notification email and/or disabling
>> new mail delivery until user has more quota again)?
> 
> As a last resort, yes. If possible, I'd like to keep the feedback about
> mailbox size as direct as possible.
> 
> Disabling an account only once per night might be acceptable, but the
> reenabling of the account, once a user has freed some space, has to be
> instant or I would get constant complains from the users (the ones with
> the biggest mailboxes being the professors, which can be quite the pain
> to work with, if they believe they don't get what they think they are
> entitled to get).

You can use quota warning scripts to send warnings and enable account instantly when it goes under 100%.

> So far, the description of the delete_to_trash plugin sounds promising,
> because I can already ignore the Trash (or add to the total quota for
> this folder and do a nightly expunge run for it), if only it would
> compile for dovecot 2.1.


I don't like the idea behind deleted_to_trash and won't offer any support for it if I don't have to.