Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 15:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Bruce Bauman <boot@mosquito.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, boot@itchy.mosquito.com Subject: Re: limiting mailbox size? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960106151012.789A-100000@cabal.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199511271700.LAA11217@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote:
>
> No clean solutions that I've seen. :-)
We have an additional problem in that excessively large mailboxes
will cause some IMAP and POP clients to timeout their connections to
the mail server. 99% of calls to support about "your mail server
isn't working" can be attributed to someone with huge mailbox. I used
to be nice and extract/delete out the big messages (file
transmissions), but now I just move the entire mailbox into the home
directory and instruct the user to download it back to their home
machine and find a way of dealing with it from there.
Our mail spool is closing in on 1.5 gigabytes (9891 mailboxes), on
a 1.7-gig /var partition. Luckily, only on one occasion did the
filesystem fill up *completely* (i.e., 109% capacity) and that was
when a broken Unixware mail host repeatedly bounced 9-meg messages to
one of our users (who had addressed to the wrong host in the first
place). :-/
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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