From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 28 12:25:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10F316A4FB for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (filter2-tmobile.zx.nl [194.187.76.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B227913C4D5 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879581C7301; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:25:54 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zx.nl Received: from filter2-tmobile.zx.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (filter2.zx.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10127) with ESMTP id yK6gQeSzzuEM; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:25:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [91.141.234.233]) by filter2-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:25:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <479DC9D2.7050707@student.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:25:54 +0000 From: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: D G Teed References: <479D6E97.6060100@gmx.net> <20080128090005.V1235@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <479DA0EF.8090609@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested size of /var/mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:25:57 -0000 D G Teed wrote: > What sort of server is it - MX, apache, database server, Actually, it IS in the OP... OP has (or wants to have) a mail server and asks for suggestions regarding the mail spool size. Simple as that. Apache has nothing to do with it. Whether or not to have a seperate /usr/local has nothing to do with it. The size of /usr has... ah well, we get the picture, don't we? As for the answer, this depends on whether or not mail quota are enforced, how many users there are and how large you expect the average and biggest mailboxes to be (or allow to be). Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware