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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:20:10 GMT
From:      lists@efinley.com (Elliot Finley)
To:        Arthur Kelly <arthur@sevenkings.net>
Cc:        Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>, Systems Technician <systech@maui.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: high load averages on mail server
Message-ID:  <38a73640.251839192@mail.afnetinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <q3t3as4g9lgdajten5h8brrs2uquocusb2@4ax.com>
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We use Cucipop as the POP server.  It doesn't make a copy of the
mailbox at the beginning of the mail check like qpopper does.  And for
deleting mail older than X days, I use a perl script to do that for
me.

On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:14:06 +0000, Arthur Kelly wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:13:19 -0600 (CST), Alex Charalabidis
><alex@wnm.net> wrote:
>
>>The time of day during which it happens is the tell-tale sign. Your
>>problem is most likely to be clueness business users who never delete=20
>>their mail from the server and check it every minute. You need to =
impose
>>quotas or ruthlessly wipe those 50MB mailboxes full of baby pictures =
and
>>Valentines from 1997.
>
>
>What are people using to delete mail older than say, 60 days from the
>mail spool?
>
>
>
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