From: "Shad Pulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [imail] Deleting old users... Date sent: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:58:46 -0700 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Humankind Systems, Inc.
> > OK, so some users have this registry key and some do not.. How do > they get it.. Also, how do I interpret the data in the key.. A > decimal value of '1017766261' means what? Seconds from Jan 1, 1970. > The reason I ask is that we have a 'freemail' service we provide. I > need to clean it up it's a disk space hog and really overtaxes the > server. I have mailbox size limits, and delete old mail regularly, > but 10,000 inactive accounts getting mail puts a load on the server. > Half the time their boxes are full and they end up bouncing. Then the > server is overloaded with NDRs saying the mailbox is full. Half the > time, it's spam with bad return addresses, so I end up with thousands > upon thousands of GSE files in the queue. I'd rather just give an > invalid user message when it first tries to deliver. Only way to do > that is to delete the account. > > Thanks for your help.. > > > Shad Pulley > Senior Systems Engineer > Ikano Communications > (801) 415-8023 Ph & Fax > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:58 PM To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [imail] Deleting old users... > > > Here is the snippet we use to read the last login and and populate a > database. One of these days I am going to clean some of this up so > other people can use it. But for now - if you write a program to scan > the registry you can do it pretty easily. > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Domains\"+ > alltrim(domains.domain)+"\Users\"+alltrim(lcUser)+"\","LastLogin") > > If they are x number days out we then send a warning email to their > alternative and local email (in case they use pop3) and then when we > scan thru the next week, if they are still gone - if they are not > using pop3 during the week - kill the account, if they are using pop3 > give them one more chance and a very stern warning. After 30 days we > delete the directories - this gives them the chance to reclaim their > accounts. > > We have instituted a $5 reactivation fee for any email we close. No > one seems to mind and it has become a fairly steady source of beer > money. > > Chet > > From: "Shad Pulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [imail] Deleting old users... > Date sent: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:44:31 -0700 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: Humankind Systems, Inc. > > > Is there a way of going through and finding users that have not > > logged in in say the last 6 months? Also, is there a command line > > utility to delete orphaned accounts so I can schedule it once a > > week? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Shad Pulley > > Senior Systems Engineer > > Ikano Communications > > (801) 415-8023 Ph & Fax > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > http://www.portalofevil.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. > Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 > To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. > Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 > To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists > _______________________________________________________ http://www.portalofevil.com ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists
