Subject: Disk quotas and IMAP clients?

From: [email-masked] (Jim Gogan)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:59:50 GMT

In looking at Windows and Mac IMAP clients, we have encountered a
major problem with at least one product.

We have a disk quota imposed for user home directories (where the mail
folders are located) and no disk quota for /var/spool/mail (home of
INBOX).

With one Windows IMAP client that we are looking at, when a user that
has hit their disk quota on their home directory moves a mail message
from their INBOX into a folder, they get no error/warning message,
everything looks like the mail message has moved over, it gets deleted
from the INBOX, but since they have no disk space available in their
home directory, it goes into "ye ol' bit bucket" and is GONE from this
(and any other discernible) dimension.

What have been the experiences of others out there with IMAP clients
for Windows and Macs in terms of handling system errors like this?
Anyone else encountered this with other clients?  Are there other
sites that have disk quotas where the folders are stored?  Are there
clients that DO properly return the appropriate error message in a
case like this?

Thanks in advance.

-- Jim Gogan <[email-masked]> / Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill