From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 15:14:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from egypt.sevenkings.net (egypt.sevenkings.net [216.172.23.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF61C4034 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from jk3329.sevenkings.net (jk3329.sevenkings.net [216.172.23.1]) by egypt.sevenkings.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA02951; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:14:01 -0500 (EST) From: Arthur Kelly To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: Systems Technician , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high load averages on mail server Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:14:06 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20000209114921.C17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:13:19 -0600 (CST), Alex Charalabidis wrote: >The time of day during which it happens is the tell-tale sign. Your >problem is most likely to be clueness business users who never delete=20 >their mail from the server and check it every minute. You need to impose >quotas or ruthlessly wipe those 50MB mailboxes full of baby pictures and >Valentines from 1997. What are people using to delete mail older than say, 60 days from the mail spool? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message