Re: deactivating folders

Hi Torsten,


At 15:58 11-02-2004, you wrote:
>Carlos Santos schrieb:
>>Hi.
>>I'm considering the use of Neomail as a mail client for situations where 
>>my clients aren't at home or are on vacation or something and want to 
>>check their email. My server is running Linux Redhat and Sendmail (POP3)
>
>(sendmail isn't a POP3 server)


Right. Slip of the tongue. I keep thinking of smtp and pop3 as being 2 
sides of the same coin. In a way, they are, but nevertheless they also are 
different protocols, with different daemons and different purposes.

>Without changing neomails code ... hmm
>Possibly you should set $folderquota to 1
>
>see:
>folderquota - Once a user's saved mail spools (not including their INBOX, 
>which, if managed, will have to be managed with system quotas)
>meet or exceed this size (in KB), no future messages will be able to be 
>sent to any folder other than TRASH, where they will be immediately 
>deleted, until space is freed.  This does not prevent the operation taking 
>the user over this limit from completing, it simply inhibits further 
>saving of messages until the folder size is brought down again.
>
>I don't know, if setting $folderquota to 0 means unlimited
>or 0 KB, but with 1 KB possibly 1 or 2 mails can be saved to another
>folder, so this could be emergency soltion for your users.



Hmmm.... You may be on to something... If I allow folders, that would mean 
I wouldn't have to get near Neomail's code. On the other hand if I reduce 
the users disk quota to, say, 5 MB. That would be disk enough to work for a 
couple of emails but not enough to encourage users to use Neomail as a 
permanent replacement for Outlook (or whatever mail client they use). Which 
is what I want: Neomail would become an emergency resource but not a full 
fledged replacement. That does make me want to ask one last thing: if the 
quotas were to be set at 5MB and the user has 20MB of emails in the pop3 
server, and the user tries to transfer that content to one of his 
customized folders, how would that work ? Neomail would transfer up to 5MB 
to the users folder and leave the remaining 15MB where they were ? Or that 
would cause the entire 20MB to be neither here not there ? Losing emails is 
not an option.


Thanks,
Carlos.







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