Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
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> abstract: Exim counts<T> tagged (marked for deletion) files
> when recalculatint the maildir quota. How to skip these files?
>
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>
> details:
>
> with "maildir_use_size_file" Exim maintains the "maildirsize" file on
> maildir delivery. If this file exceeds a size of 5120 bytes, Exim
> recalculates the quota and rewrites the file.
>
> The recalculation is done on the file sizes (or sizes encoded in the
> filenames as S=…). For various reasons trashed messages should not taken
> into account.
>
> In Exim I can achieve this using the
>
> maildir_quota_directory_regex = ^(?:cur|new|\.(?!Trash).*)$
>
> This way I can skip the Trash folder. But in ordinary folders I have
> messages *tagged for beeing trashed* (deleted, but not expunged).
> These files are counted by exim.
>
> (Personally I feel, this is ok, since skipping the Trash folder is
> just a hack to make clients happy when they use the Trash instead of
> marking the message deleted. As far as I know there is not Trash folder
> specified in some IMAP description…)
>
>
> I'd like to have an option telling Exim if the<T> tagged messages
> (marked for deletion) should be taken into account.)
>
> Why? When Courier starts the recalculation, it skips the Trash/ and the
> <T> tagged messages, thus we've some kind of instable quota usage :)
>
>
du -c /path/to/Maildir/cur/*.?T?
.. perhaps coupled with a bit of regex, might be a starting point...
Bill
