[19038] in Athena Bugs
inc'ing near quota behavior change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (seph)
Sun Jul 22 13:38:41 2001
Message-Id: <200107221738.NAA16025@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:38:35 -0400
From: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
I'm generally fairly near quota, so when I get large 6 meg files, I
end up inc'ing, running out of quota, and re-inc'ing.
On the old mail servers, if an inc failed, than none of the messages
were considered downloaded, and they were all left on the server. The
new mail servers change this, and only consider the messages after the
large one to be new.
this seems like a fairly large user-impacting change, as I'd
previously been in the habit of deleting all inc'ed mail, so as to
prevent duplicates. I'm not really sure which behavior I consider more
correct, but the change was inconvient to say the least. Of course,
the new imap servers have been deployed for awhile, so perhaps
everyone's already been bitten.
seph
