On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Scott Russell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:17:28AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This has come up before. The move command is actually a two step > > > operation where the file is first copied to the 'Trash' folder and then > > > deleted from the source directory. The copy operation fails > > > because the user is over quota. > > > > > > > Since the mailbox is all on the same filesystem, why not use hard links to > > move the file when the move command is used, like sendmail does, instead > > of copy and delete ? It would give better performance, and take care of > > the overquota problem. > > There is no 'move' command in the IMAP RFC iirc. A 'move' operation is > just client side semantics for 'copy and then delete'. > Then why not use the hard links (essentially the same as SIS delivery) for IMAP copy?
