> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:51 > To: centos at 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 at 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. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.