> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mike Burger > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 13:51 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] procmail and dovecot > > 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. No it is not. And databases are not for storing emails, I mean blobs. > > 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. Well it works for us, and allows us to do our job and that is how we pay the bills. Limiting things is letting technology drive people. > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever > just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - 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.