Alain Reguera wrote: > Restructuring setup > --------------------------------- > Hardware: > Pentium III 1.4Ghz > 256 RAM > 40 GB HD-IDE > > Soft: > CentOS 4.2 > Postfix > Cyrus-IMAPd > > Partitioning(in MB): > / 8.000 > /boot/ 100 > swap 512 > /home/ 15.888 > /tmp/ 500 > /var/spool/imap/ 15.000 > > would be this a candidate setup? NO. 1) Minor: Why do you want a large /home? Is this email only or do you plan to let users create their own webpage or something? 2) Major: No /var partition which means it comes under /. I suggest separating /var from / since /var will hold your mail queue. If possible, get / to the state where it is mounted read only. > > I'm planning use quota (as suggested in this list) on cyrus level, > giving the students the possibility of free their inbox when it is > over quota, and let the messages that are in queue (recently) get into > the inbox when the space is freed. Remember to make overquota a temp/soft failure then if that is what you want. > > In the future, think the possibility of use postgresql (and some php > application) to manage users accounts. I'd suggest doing that now. Migrating mailboxes to a new system is not fun. > > Like the beginning, it'll be appreciated any suggestion about. Get another disk if the mails are important to you.