Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-07 Thread Simon Matter
Even on many OS's move copies the file, make sure that it is a good copy, and then deletes the original. MOVE still wouldn't handle this case because there still needs to be 2 copies at a given point in time to handle fault tolerance. Just a thought, B I dont see that behavior on my

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-06 Thread Robert Scussel
What exactly would dictate a move? Even on many OS's move copies the file, make sure that it is a good copy, and then deletes the original. MOVE still wouldn't handle this case because there still needs to be 2 copies at a given point in time to handle fault tolerance. Just a thought, B

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-06 Thread Gregg Berkholtz
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:48:30PM -0400, Robert Scussel wrote: Gregg Berkholtz wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:00:03PM -0500, John Madden wrote: Because IMAP doesn't provide a move operation for messages. Your client is probably first doing an append of the message to the destination

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-02 Thread Gregg Berkholtz
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:00:03PM -0500, John Madden wrote: 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

moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Christian Anton
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

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Dave McMurtrie
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

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Chris Hilts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread John Madden
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. I'm sure we've all had problems with

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Dave McMurtrie
John Madden wrote: 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. I'm sure we've all

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Chris Hilts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it wise to modify these clients to instead FETCH, delete/expunge, then STORE? Sounds like a recipe for lost messages should anything go wrong.. What happens if as you FETCH, new messages arrive and take up just enough quota that the STORE would

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread John Madden
Sounds like a recipe for lost messages should anything go wrong.. What happens if as you FETCH, new messages arrive and take up just enough quota that the STORE would put it over quota? What do you do with the message? 4th and 15. Punt. That's certainly a tough situation. So what *is* the

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Sounds like a recipe for lost messages should anything go wrong.. What happens if as you FETCH, new messages arrive and take up just enough quota that the STORE would put it over quota? What do you do with the message? 4th and 15. Punt. That's certainly a tough situation. So what *is*

Re: moving message on nearly full mailbox with IMAP

2005-07-01 Thread Ken Murchison
Lars Kristiansen wrote: Sounds like a recipe for lost messages should anything go wrong.. What happens if as you FETCH, new messages arrive and take up just enough quota that the STORE would put it over quota? What do you do with the message? 4th and 15. Punt. That's certainly a tough