PMDF popstore & MessageStore Manager's Guide


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6.8 Returning or deleting messages

A user's stored messages can be deleted with the delete -messages command. When the -return switch is also specified, any unread messages are returned as unread to their sender. For instance, to delete the messages for the account jdoe, returning any unread messages, use the command


popstore> delete -messages -return jdoe

Note that the -return switch can also be used with the delete command as described in Section 6.5.

6.9 Account quotas

Account quotas are used to control how much mail a user can store. Each account has a primary quota and an overdraft quota which are established when the account is created and can be changed with the modify command. An account can not receive a new message if either the account's present storage exceeds the account's quota, or storage of the message would cause the account to exceed the sum of its quota and overdraft quota.1

Quotas are set and changed with the -quota and -overdraft switches of the add, copy, and modify commands. An account can be granted unlimited quota with the -noquota switch. By default, quotas are expressed in units of kbytes (1024 bytes). Alternate units can be selected with the set storage_units command.

Note

1 See Section 1.3.3 for a discussion of the rationale behind the use of an overdraft quota.


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