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 had problems with this. > > Is it wise to modify these clients to instead FETCH, delete/expunge, then > STORE?
I guess that would solve this particular problem. It does present a different problem, though. If there's a failure (system crash, mail client crash, etc) after you expunge the original message and before you append it again, you've lost a message. 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
