Re: Discursion about bug #465

Aleksander Kamenik wrote:

> Will this behavior be changed to the "stepped
deletion" scheme? If so,
> in 2.2 or 2.3?

Personally, I'm not in favor of this at all.

If accidental deletion of mailboxes is what bothers you, you
can configure the
mailclients to move mailboxes to below Trash (like
thunderbird does).

If you all think we cannot live without stepped deletion of
mailboxes, what is
required is:
- break the foreign key restraint between messages and
mailboxes
- setup a trigger that will update the status field of all
messages when a
mailbox is deleted.
- make sure the integrity check run by dbmail-util no longer
delete unconnected
messages.

So no this will not happen in the 2.2. code, but it may be
done in 2.3

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Paul J Stevens wrote:

> If accidental deletion of mailboxes is what bothers
you, you can configure the
> mailclients to move mailboxes to below Trash (like
thunderbird does).

That's not always possible.

> If you all think we cannot live without stepped
deletion of mailboxes, what is
> required is:
> - break the foreign key restraint between messages and
mailboxes
> - setup a trigger that will update the status field of
all messages when a
> mailbox is deleted.
> - make sure the integrity check run by dbmail-util no
longer delete unconnected
> messages.
> 
> So no this will not happen in the 2.2. code, but it may
be done in 2.3

Sounds fair. I'm not that worried either, although it would
be a nice 
feature and would be consistent with the deletion of
individual messages.

It was a surprise for me when I found out that the stepped
deletion 
process could be bypassed. I think I might not be the only
one, maybe a 
warning should be somewhere for admins?

The restoring of messages (mostly accidental deletes by
users) via 
simple SQL instead of running for the backups has been a
valuable dbmail 
feature so far, too bad this can't be used in the case of
mailboxes.


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