Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:27:35 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: systech@maui.net Cc: Arthur Kelly <arthur@sevenkings.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high load averages on mail server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002091621210.74719-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <20000209141950.A15924@work.maui.net>
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Most of the load from popds I'm aware of is from the daemon duplicating the mail file at the start of the "mail check". With big mailboxes that can be very expensive. There may be a popd that handles things more efficiently or you may need to go to a maildb instead of the /var/mail/files. That would both reduce the wasted effort and make pruning much simpler. I'd be surprised if someone here doesn't know an easy fix. If not you might bounce your question off the freebsd-isp list. Yours is a common situation in isp land... I'm just out-of-date enough there to be dangerous. Not A POP fan... Dave On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Systems Technician wrote: > Aloha, > > They are using their pop client as far as I know. Yes, this leaves > it to their discretion and if some have "Leave Mail on Server" I'm screwed. > Some also use Pine, Elm, or Mutt. I've often thought about going through their > and purging out "old" mail, but......... Does anyone else do that as a > general maintenance plan? If so, how do you get away with deleting mail? > Backups, and leave it up to them to call and ask for any old mail if they want > it? > > > > On Feb 09, 2000, you Arthur Kelly sent a message that said: > ! On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:13:19 -0600 (CST), Alex Charalabidis > ! <alex@wnm.net> 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 > ! >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
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