On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Mike Burger mburger@bubbanfriends.org wrote:
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.
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.
I take it you're using Dovecot and Maildir quotas [0] or something else [1]? I'm curious as to what solution you're using and any configuration snippets you feel like sharing.
Thanks!
[0] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Maildir [1] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota