My initial take on this is that users with mail boxes in the 100-600MB range
need to do some housekeeping. :)

I believe Imail stores mail in the single file format as it's a recognise
standard *.nix thing to do (those who know the techincals may coorect me on
that). Have you considered and ODBC datastore for your email.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Aitken
Sent: 28 November 2003 16:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Mailbox storage issue


Is there any way of getting Imail to store messages in another format (ie
single files per message - similar to cyrus IMAP) rather than one big file
for every mailbox. The reason I ask is that we have around 300 users that
like to keep a lot of email accessible on server. Some of users have
mailboxes anywhere from 100-600MB in size. The problem we have is that when
we are doing backups nearly 2/3 of our total 16GB of email files are
changing daily, making our daily incremental backups around 10GB.
 
Anything I can do other then hack user usage down in general.
 
 
 
Thanks
 
 
 
Andrew Aitken
Computer Officer
School of the Built Environment
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
 
Tel: 0131 451 4406
Mob: 07739 514015


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