On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: > What happens when I create a sub of inbox. What quota does apply to that > sub or does the sub has no quota? > > according the rfc: > Each mailbox has zero or more implementation-defined named "quota > roots". Each quota root has zero or more resource limits. All > mailboxes that share the same named quota root share the resource > limits of the quota root. > > that make me think that INBOX and INBOX.Trash share the same named quota > and therefor raising the quota on inbox.Trash doesn't help. (I could be > wrong, I never used quotas)
No, some implementations might inheret, others might override (that is, a new quota root would override all previous roots). Cyrus does the later. > But to come back to the QUOTA idea. It's probably not a good idea. Much > better would be to write an RFC for IMAP MOVE. But that's discussed before > if I'm correct. IMAP MOVE is very difficult in IMAP for a variety of reasons. One is transactionality, One is preservation of UIDs (which is important if you want to undo a move). Here's a previous thread: http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/current/msg00629.html -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper