Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 04:12:53 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Ooh, grandma, what a big mailbox you have! Message-ID: <9294.887803973.1@time.cdrom.com>
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------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Ooh, grandma, what a big mailbox you have! Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 04:12:53 -0800 Message-ID: <9294.887803973@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Sorry to send this to hackers, but this is the only way to get the message to many folks who have mail.freebsd.org accounts but subscribe under a different address - for reasons that will quickly become apparent, I can't send them email at their freebsd.org address. :-) A couple of weeks ago we lost all the /var/forward files on mail.freebsd.org and, since mail is configured to IGNORE $HOME/.forward files in favor of files in /var/forward, for many folks their mail simply started queuing up locally. We ignore $HOME/.forward for the simple reason that most people have their home directories on freefall, and if freefall is down and temporarily not providing NFS services for some reason then the $HOME/.forward files become unreachable by sendmail and it just dumps them into the local mailbox anyway. With our /var/forward/$USER file solution, it's at least robust in the face of NFS failures even if it's not very robust in the face of outright disk crashes with no backups. :-) In any case, the backup problem has been basically dealt with (we bought a tape drive) but we've still got a lot of folks who's forward files never got recreated and their mail is just spooling up on mail.freebsd.org as a result. If you are one of the following people or *know how to contact one of these folks*, please arrange for the email to be pop'd off of mail.freebsd.org so that we can reclaim the space. THANKS! Rogue's gallery of top mailboxes: 5920 -rw------- 1 mpp mpp 6047451 Feb 18 04:02 mpp 5552 -rw------- 1 gclarkii gclarkii 5669691 Feb 18 04:02 gclarkii 5256 -rw------- 1 ats ats 5372580 Feb 18 04:02 ats 3928 -rw------- 1 jmb jmb 4007764 Feb 18 04:04 jmb 3200 -rw------- 1 paul paul 3262386 Feb 18 04:02 paul 3112 -rw------- 1 chuckr chuckr 3173118 Feb 18 04:02 chuckr 3056 -rw------- 1 csgr csgr 3113460 Feb 18 04:02 csgr 3024 -rw------- 1 max max 3083988 Feb 18 04:02 max 2976 -rw------- 1 wpaul wpaul 3038653 Feb 18 04:02 wpaul 2976 -rw------- 1 torstenb torstenb 3035328 Feb 18 04:02 torstenb 2944 -rw------- 1 charnier charnier 3003161 Feb 18 04:03 charnier 2936 -rw------- 1 uhclem uhclem 2993123 Feb 18 04:02 uhclem 2936 -rw------- 1 rhh 4033 2992216 Feb 18 04:05 rhh 2936 -rw------- 1 ahasty ahasty 2993785 Feb 18 04:05 ahasty 2928 -rw------- 1 ugen ugen 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 ugen 2928 -rw------- 1 tedm tedm 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 tedm 2928 -rw------- 1 stark stark 2985034 Feb 18 04:03 stark 2928 -rw------- 1 rse rse 2985034 Feb 18 04:03 rse 2928 -rw------- 1 proven proven 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 proven 2928 -rw------- 1 pds pds 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 pds 2928 -rw------- 1 mjacob mjacob 2985034 Feb 18 04:05 mjacob 2928 -rw------- 1 mbarkah mbarkah 2986768 Feb 18 04:02 mbarkah 2928 -rw------- 1 ljo ljo 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 ljo 2928 -rw------- 1 lars lars 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 lars 2928 -rw------- 1 karl karl 2989948 Feb 18 04:02 karl 2928 -rw------- 1 jvh jvh 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 jvh 2928 -rw------- 1 jgreco jgreco 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 jgreco 2928 -rw------- 1 graichen graichen 2987417 Feb 18 04:02 graichen 2928 -rw------- 1 davidn davidn 2988959 Feb 18 04:02 davidn 2928 -rw------- 1 darrenr darrenr 2985034 Feb 18 04:02 darrenr 2928 -rw------- 1 brandon brandon 2985034 Feb 18 04:05 brandon 936 -rw------- 1 vanilla vanilla 945964 Feb 18 04:05 vanilla 792 -rw------- 1 wosch wosch 796801 Feb 18 04:02 wosch 448 -rw------- 1 jhs jhs 445223 Feb 18 03:39 jhs 264 -rw------- 1 wilko wilko 255243 Feb 18 00:47 wilko 200 -rw------- 1 adam adam 195855 Jan 25 09:56 adam 192 -rw------- 1 hsu hsu 182838 Feb 18 04:02 hsu 144 -rw------- 1 smace smace 135920 Jan 24 18:22 smace 128 -rw------- 1 dima dima 115147 Jan 23 19:33 dima 112 -rw------- 1 jseger jseger 100510 Feb 18 04:05 jseger 112 -rw------- 1 john john 102757 Feb 17 20:05 john ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To unsubscribe from freebsd-announce, send a mail to majordomo@freebsd.org with the body unsubscribe freebsd-announce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message
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