On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:54, John R. Levine wrote: > >I'm looking to get some customisation of MHonArc done professionally. > >The work would involve adding an option to a resource file, whereby the > >amount of disk space that an archive occupied could be limited. It would > >function similar to the MAXSIZE option, where old messages are removed > >to make way for new ones, but obviously would work as a function of disk > >space rather than number of messages. > > If I were you, I'd buy a bigger disk. Say it costs $500 to get your > software adjusted which would be pretty cheap. For that price, you > could easily get 120GB of mirrored disk in a hot swap enclosure, > probably 200GB if you chose your parts carefully.. Unless people are > mailing around videos on your lists, that's an awful lot of mail > messages.
Thanks for the suggestion, and good point! The thing is I'm running on a remote dedicated server, so it's not quite so easy to upgrade the drive. Also, it's a question of cost of bandwidth use - the more disk space that archives use, the chances are the more bandwidth will be used looking at them.
