IMAP - Quota ?

[Darin Perusich]

imap quota's do not work that way but that's not to say that they 
couldn't be setup that way. imap servers are usually setup so that once 
you reach a certain percentage of utilization the user is sent warning 
messages. once the quota is reached messages are blocked and kicked back 
to the sender, like when you send a message to a non-existent account. 
now with the cyrus imap server you can configure it to purge messages 
based on age, size, etc, but this doesn't remove folders. i'm sure 
netscape is not using cyrus imapd but their own imap server.

i'd say that something else happened to your account. i'd read 
netsacpe's license or site policy about storage of message and contact 
them. most webmail services do not guarantee message storage unless you 
pay for it.

good luck.

green_man wrote:
> I have some questions for the administrator types about IMAP.
> I have an IMAP account at netscape.net that I use for several user 
> forums and mailing lists, and it was recently *HOSED*.
> All of my saved messages, subdirectories, mail filter rules, etc. are 
> gone when I opened it.
> Only my address book and initial directories [inbox, sent, trash, 
> drafts] remain.
> 
> What happened,  was I over quota size, or did something else happen ?
> Shouldn't I have received a warning if it was over quota ?
> I find it hard to believe that default practice is to snuff everything. 
> How much account information is stored on the client side [me], and how 
> much is stored on the server side [them] ?
> 
> Has anyone else on the list recently  lost  all their data from a 
> Netscape Mail account ?
> 
> AIA

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com