Many of my users use the various quota settings in Messaging Server.
You can set quotas on message number and/or mailbox size. Notifications
are sent to the user, even if they're over quota. . .
You can set quota individually, by "class of service", or globally.
Yes, it'll run on the same hardware you're running now. On Redhat 4 or
5, or Solaris.
jay
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Jay Plesset wrote:
Geez, unless your users are into the millions of messages, maybe you
need a more scalable mail server. My day job is support of the Sun
comms suite. I only get these when there are litterally tens of
millions of messages in an inbox.
Where we generally get these problems is when users are running MacOS X
and using the included free Apple Mail as a POP3 client, because one
of the DEFAULTS of that client is to leave a copy of the mail message
on the server. The typical scenario is that we get one of these users
who runs it this way for a couple months, then one day their relative
starts e-mailing them 50MB pictures of their latest vacation, and once
their e-mail box exceeds 800MB in size, popper (qpopper) starts getting
really slow in downloading the message ID list and their client starts
running like a dog.
There's probably many ways I could fix it, from replacing qpopper to
going to faster disks or more powerful hardware, or running a nightly
script that squawks about the bad citizens, but I frankly don't
feel compelled to allocate all of our POP3 users a gigabyte of disk
space for their mailbox, and if did fix it then I'd have to setup
quotas on /var/mail
Doing it this way penalizes only the users who engage in the
objectionable behavior, and it penalizes them in such a way that it
doesn't cause them to lose mail, or cause the server to reject
incoming mail messages to them, or causes mail they have to be
truncated. And
it also doesn't do it in a way that is sudden - the user just starts
noticing things getting slower and slower and slower over time - so
they have plenty of time to contact us at their leisure.
I suppose that one of these days the author of qpopper will rewrite
the search logic in the qpopper program to fix this and then I'll have
to find some other way to gently enforce this.
Ted
jay
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Sean Leinart wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Leinart [mailto:slein...@fscarolina.com] Sent: Friday,
October 23, 2009 2:04 PM
To: TJ Russ
Cc: allison.ays...@lonesource.com; Spamassassin Mailing List
Subject: Email / Inbox Speed Problems
Hi TJ,
Looking over your Inbox situation, you suffer from the same
problem as most here do. You have too much email stored on the
server. Can you give me a rundown of the folders that can be
eliminated in your Inbox, we can archive them off then delete them
from your folders that are online, this will help a great deal.
Thank you,
Sean Leinart
Network Systems Engineer
First Service Carolina Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
United States
slein...@fscarolina.com
919-832-5553
DOH!!
List, please disregard the erroneous CC: post to the list.
I had to look twice since it was the identical problem to what
we deal with every week around here.
Ted
