-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:51 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:38 -0600, Jeff wrote:
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jason Pyeron
jpyeron@pdinc.us wrote:
And with regard to backup space, it might be time to suck it up and tell your users that you need to implement mail quotas. How
much are
you backing up from "Sent" and "Trash" because nobody
maintains their
mail folders? A quota can be a great tool for teaching basic mail folder housekeeping.
+1 on quotas; they are virtuous even if capacity isn't a constraint - they force users to manage their data.
I am sorry if this comes across harsh, but you have no idea about the business objectives, I never asked how do we keep our email size small. In fact I said it was BIG and I had a performance issue.
Regarding sent/trash/SPAM Cyrus IMAPd provides an "expire" annotation that can be applied to folders that will expire messages from the folders older than X number of days [on the server side, user doesn't have to login for this to happen]. For example we expire sent-mail at 365 days, trash at 45 days, and SPAM at 14 days. This helps quite a bit against lazy-user-syndrome.
That is a recipe for fired lazy-sysadmin-syndrom.
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