On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 17:25, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:28 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > The fact that IMAP keeps the deleted mail until I expunge
> > makes that a complete waste of resources as far as I'm concerned.  And I
> > can't tell you how many times I, or some other admin, has had to yell at
> > people who's trash folder was taking up 100M of space (or made their
> > account unable to receive email since they were at their quota) just
> > because they never checked it.
> 
> That's what quotas (and BOFHs) are for--to teach people lessons about
> managing their limited resources.  ;)  It also doesn't seem to me like
> it would be difficult to write a cron script that deletes the oldest
> messages from the Trash folder when that folder exceeds a certain size.

i.e. exactly what those of us who manage mail servers end up doing, and
the fact that every mail client has a different idea about how to
delete stuff, and even what to *call* the Trash folder when they have
one (no, they don't all call it Trash) just adds a little more blackness
to the greyness of life.  Same thing goes for Sent, Junk and so on.

> Even nicer would be a client-side option, a la Outlook (and, I think,
> Eudora, and probably others...).

Kmail has it :-)

poc

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