[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0019199]: [patch] MaxMsg Quota Only Enforced on INBOX Messages for Filesystem Based Voice Mail Boxes

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=19199 
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Reported By:                Jamuel
Assigned To:                jrose
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   19199
Category:                   Applications/app_voicemail
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Asterisk Version:           1.6.2.18 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2011-04-28 19:13 CDT
Last Modified:              2011-05-04 09:38 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] MaxMsg Quota Only Enforced on INBOX Messages
for Filesystem Based Voice Mail Boxes
Description: 
When a caller attempts to leave a message for a VM user app_voicemail does
not count messages in other folders in the user's mailbox (e.g. Old,
Urgent, Friends, Family, CustX) in consideration of maxmsg limit.  

The maxmsg setting which is supposed limit total messages per folder does
not work as anticipated as a user could individually (or in aggregate) have
more messages than maxmsg allows just as long as the number contained in
INBOX is less than maxmsg.  It appears that the file-based count_messages
function only ever checks INBOX.

NB: the maxmsg setting has been interpreted to be a setting to control the
total number messages for each user (mailbox) folder and not each
sub-folder that may optionally be contained within the user's mailbox
folder.
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 (0134431) jrose (manager) - 2011-05-04 09:38
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=19199#c134431 
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At the moment I'm thinking it'd be better to create a whole new option to
handle this and keep the existing maxmsg option and just change terminology
so that it's clear that these are folder message limits and not mailbox
message limits.

It's true though that most of what the user is presented with suggests
that the intent is for the message limits to be applied to the mailbox and
not to the folders.  Really I think the best option is to have individual
folder size limits as well as an overall maximum messages limit. 

Issue History 
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2011-05-04 09:38 jrose          Note Added: 0134431                          
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