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Old 07-29-2003, 02:18 AM   #1
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Limit amount of emails on server


I have this mail server available to my friends at campus. It works fine until recently I've noticed that its performance degraded considerable - I traced the problem, and it was due to the large amount of emails left on the server. The users of my mail server tend to leave the emails on the server after reading them and this will eventually hog the system - imagine a scenario which actually happened of a user leaving nearly 2,000 msgs on his mailbox and whenever he tries to access them, the entire server slows down to death!

How can i solve the problem? My idea is to restrict the size of the total emails left on the server to approx. 30MB and whenever a user approaches the limit, he is sent a notification via email to remove them. When the user exceeds the limit, the new incoming emails will wither replace the new ones on the server, or simply "rejected". Any programs available?

PS: I use sendmail.
 
Old 07-29-2003, 02:45 AM   #2
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Are we talkin pop or imap?
 
Old 07-29-2003, 02:49 AM   #3
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Old 07-29-2003, 03:44 AM   #4
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Hmm Virtual or real users?

Have you looked into using quotas yet? As far as the auto email thing, I'll hunt around to see if I can find anything on that. A script writer around here would surely be able to bust something out for you in a jiffy, but unfortunately I'm not one of them

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Old 07-29-2003, 04:24 AM   #5
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Ok let's leave the auto-email aside for the moment

What about the quota? How can i implement it in my mail server?
 
Old 07-30-2003, 04:53 AM   #6
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Seems like nobody ever tried it? I presume i must use the "edquota" but i'm still lost...
 
Old 07-30-2003, 08:48 AM   #7
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Above seems to be the kind of thing you're looking for, give it a good read over.
 
Old 07-30-2003, 11:21 AM   #8
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Hey Looking_Lost thanks for the link. YES it seems what i've been searching...
 
  


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