[CentOS] Converting to maildir

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----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.


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