-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 13:51 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] procmail and dovecot
On 2014-06-13 1:00 pm, Frank Cox wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:50:52 -0400 Jason Pyeron wrote:
That's it. 15 users, with 20 2GB+ mbox files with a daily
change of a
100k+ was killing our backup effort by having to backup .6TB every day.
*shudder*
Email isn't a database.
No it is not. And databases are not for storing emails, I mean blobs.
Amen.
Even at home, where I own/control the whole shebang, I limit the inbox size to 250M. Get close to or exceed that size, and you won't receive email...period.
Well it works for us, and allows us to do our job and that is how we pay the bills. Limiting things is letting technology drive people.
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