Christian Anton wrote: > Hi everybody again, > > As Ken helped me with my feature request for the quota behavior of > cyrus-imapd > i now have one more question i don't understand. > > If i have a Mailbox with 5MB quota, there is 4.9MB in use and i want to move > one message with 1 MB from one folder to another, cyrus gives me an error > message that says i'm "over quota". > Why does moving a message need space in the mailbox, i don't want to copy it > but to move. > > Tried so with squirrelmail and the webmail-Interface of openxchange.
Because IMAP doesn't provide a "move" operation for messages. Your client is probably first doing an append of the message to the destination folder (which is what's putting it over quota) then storing the delete flag of the original message and expunging. Thanks, Dave --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
