On Tuesday, 04.11.2003 at 10:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:57, Toomas Aas wrote: > >> You have over 5 gigabytes of mail? I find that hard to believe, > >> not even a major spammer would have that much. > > > >Alas. These days, when just about everybody sends mail in HTML > > format, it is customary to send HUGE .doc files back and forth and > > nobody ever deletes any old mail, it is not that uncommon. > > > >Just an example from our mail server (ca 300 users): > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data# du -h --max-depth=1 | grep MAIL > >21G ./MAIL > > Good grief Toomas! Can you not institute a mail box size limit, about > 10 megs maybe?
Depends on the context, of course. An IMAP server where all mail is stored on the server (including sub-folders, possibly going back many years etc.) you could justifiably need a few hundred megs for each user, perhaps more. Toomas's 21GB for 300 users equates to about 70MB per user, which doesn't sound too silly. If this is just the mail *spool*, however (it's not totally clear from the example), I would have thought that it would affect performance (especially to remote users accessing their spools) to have spool files of that size. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370
