deleteing e-Mail, quota and dovecot

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, November 07, 2005 2:46 PM +0100 Götz Reinicke 
<goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:

> Now I'm getting the situation, that users exceed there quota but yet not
> the hard limit and the user isn't able to delete messages.
>
> e.g. the the soft limit is 100 MB, the hard limit is 110 MB. So there
> should be some space to delete unneeded emails.

Others have pointed out the need for double the size of your Inbox if you 
use mbox format. The canonical way to deal with it with UW-IMAP is likely 
also the same solution for dovecot, but check the dovecot site/wiki/list to 
confirm: Use a separate partition for the temporary file, so that the 
regular storage quota doesn't apply to it.