On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 22:53, Michael Klein wrote: > As a student at a college that uses SquirrelMail, I recently ran > into the pleasant situation of running over the quota limit and > being unable to access any of my mail, new, old, or sent, due to > a cryptic error message that appeared in the left and right > panels. Fortunately, I was able to access "Folders" and delete > an archival folder I didn't really need, thereby putting me > under the limit and allowing me to see everything again.
While you did have an option to get around this issue, there are some other routes you can take as well. They have been discussed many times on the squirrelmail-users list, and the archives are easily accessible via a link on our main site (http://www.squirrelmail.org). The simplist is to disable the use of the Trash folder (option is under Options/Folder Preferences) then delete some unwanted mail. As the trash isn't used, it isn't 'moved' into the trash folder, and as such is completely removed from your storage. > Deleting attachments would really free up disk space, but allow > me to keep the text messages I value. Doubtless anyone with an > imposed quota would find this useful. Is there any way to > remove attachments, and if not, why not? This certainly seems an interesting concept, and quite possible I dare say with a little bit of ground work. It'd require the original message to be exported, the attachment stripped, then re-imported, and STOREd back onto the server. Then have the old message purged. This might cause some load issues on a highly access system due to the work being done, but I don't see it as an impossible task, just a little difficult. > An even more important issue in need of fixing is the way > message-autosave routines work in conjunction with auto-signout. > That is to say, they don't. To start with, I am routinely > signed out while composing long emails. False auto-signout is > supposed to be prevented by reducing the minutes between Folder > List refreshes; however I have auto-refreshing turned off, > because it was causing problems with a Linux internet terminal I > was using, and anyway, I like the manual control. This > auto-signout is one issue that needs proper fixing. Unfortunately SquirrelMail has little control over you being signed out. This issue is in fact a deep down PHP issue. There is a setting inside PHP (gc_maxlifetime) that tells PHP the life time of the session file. If you have the ability to do so, you can increase this time limit to a higher number, and you won't see the timeouts, or as you can do (as you already know) set the auto-refresh of folders. > But in fact, I wouldn't care nearly as much about getting logged off, > IF SqirrelMail would save my messages between sessions. As is, > I press Send, it gives a message about needing to log in, I log > in, go to Compose, and it's blank. Forty minutes of typing and > thought, all gone. This is the one time the autosave feature > would actually be really useful rather than superfluous--if it > worked between sessions, in case you get logged off or lose your > connection. Duh. You're in luck. There is in fact a plugin on the SquirrelMail site that does just this. I believe it goes by the name "quicksave". If you're not the administrator of the system, you could offer it as a suggestion to the administrators, I dare say they wouldn't mind too much. > And here's a question that needs answering, or possibly a > feature that needs implementing. Very simply: Is it possible > to change the display of senders in the "From" field so that > only their addresses, or perhaps both their addresses and their > names are shown? If not, why not? This is really quite an > important feature, as a user may want to copy and paste > addresses directly from the INBOX listing; for example, in order > to collect spammers' addresses. I certainly don't want to have > to look at each individual piece of spam just to get the address > out of it. An interesting idea, one that is fairly easy to put into place I dare say, I'll take a look shortly. Though I cannot see the need in terms of spammers myself, I find them to use randomly generated email addresses, and fetching the address is pretty useless for filters (from what I've found at least). But then again, I have no idea what your usage for such information is. > Finally and most trivial of all, something that I know no one's > noticed, but is still technically a bug (really low priority, > though). I recently wrote an email that featured an > exceptionally-long-lots-of-dashes-between-words-to-get-my-point-accross > word. Reviewing it from the Sent folder, I noticed this word > went right off the page--that is, it went way beyond the line > break point. Although people would rarely run into this as an > actual problem, it seems to me that break points should be > inserted after hyphens that come at the end of lines, not just > spaces. That's how the word processors do it, after all. My > two cents. I think that might be possible to implement... I'll have to take a look, possibly make it optional. Thanks -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
