Andre Nicholson wrote:
>>>The second problem is that mails in trash folder still counting on quota
>>>usage, so when somebody gets overquotated and try to erase some messages
>>>from the inbox, the webmail gives the following error " [ALERT] You
>>>exceeded your mail quota." What can I do to set "No trash quota"??
>>
>>If your IMAP server supports quota per folder, you can change it there. I
>>don't know of any SquirrelMail feature or plugin that turns such a feature
>>(if it even exsists) on or off. Again, read the FAQ, especially
>><http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DisableTrashcan> and the other
>>pages about quota.
>
>
> Removing the quota on the Trash folder for every current account and any new
> accounts
> created on the system can easily turn in to maintenance hell. The users will
> also most
> certainly abuse the fact that there's a folder with no quota in their account
> (even if
> it's automatically pruned daily).
>
> The problem, as I understand it in SquirrelMail, is that when a message is
> deleted, it
> is first /copied/ to the Trash folder and then it is removed from its
> original location.
> The error occurs when the account is already over quota and the message is
> attempted to
> be copied to the Trash folder and of course fails.
>
> This is nothing new and it's been reported before here on this list, but I
> don't think
> there's a solution other than disabling the Trash folder -- which isn't a
> solution, only
> a work-around really. A patch has been submitted which seems like a possible
> solution
> but it hasn't been touched in years
Please see SM 1.5, where there is a checkbox next to the delete button
that lets the user bypass the trash.
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=646386&group_id=311&atid=300311
>
> I've been just recently thinking about this problem again and have been
> wondering
> whether to update the patch for SM 1.4.4 or look at creating some kind of
> plugin, if
> it's possible. There is a note on
> http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DisableTrashcan
> that does mention that "Starting with SquirrelMail v1.5.0, there is a "Bypass
> Trash"
> checkbox when viewing the message list or a message's content, that can be
> used to
> delete mails..." so maybe I should just continue to wait?
I have not heard musings of backporting that to 1.4, so I don't know
what you would wait for. ?
> This issue has been a huge problem for my users using SquirrelMail.
Sounds like your users have another more fundamental problem then. ;)
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