Spam overflowing quota - suggested features/changes

Owen a posé une question...
Hi everyone,

I occasionally get spam with large attachments, taking me over quota.

The best solution I can come up with is to set up a mail filter (since this particular variety of spam is easy to identify) which puts it immediately in the trash. However, it appears that (at least in squirrelmail) Trash counts towards my quota - so I end up going over anyway, which is frustrating.

Some possible suggestions. Either:
1) Could we change the system so Trash doesn't count towards the quota (which I realise could bring its own problems if people use it as a loophole to get infinite storage, but I don't know how likely that really is).
OR
2) Could there be a filter action that immediately deletes a message instead of simply moving it to a folder - or, if it's easier, a filter action that moves a message to Trash and then immediately empties the Trash.
OR
3) Can I set a filter which rejects emails which are above a certain size?
OR
4) Could we change the system so that the email which (would) actually take me over quota is rejected, instead of the weird system we currently have where the large email that takes me over the quota is accepted, and then a bunch of small emails arriving afterwards are then rejected because I'm full.

Riseup folks: What do you think? Are any of the above doable?

Posting this as a public ticket in case anyone else has encountered same problem and has a suggested workaround (other than the obvious ones, ie to increase my quota and/or not to operate anywhere near my quota limit).

Thanks!
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Roadrunner a répondu...
Hi,

A few comments:

* Yes, Trash not counting towards quota would get abused
* Soon we will be increasing the default quota to 1gb which will reduce the problem
* Unfortunately the quota system doesn't have any way to differentiate between large mails and small mails
* It might be possible in mail sieve to set size limits, but our mail filter interface doesn't let you do that. It might be possible to enhance it to support that if there was a way we could be sure it couldn't be abused somehow.
* It's possible in mail clients to change the behavior of Trash and where the client moves Trashed mail (could be a local folder instead). For webmail it still has to be on the server though.
* When at quota and trying to clean up, if you are moving messages (which is actually a copy and then delete) to Trash, you are allowed to go up to 120% of quota during the message move.
* The server Trash folder gets automatically cleaned of everything older than 21 days.
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