From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 28 16:39:21 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 078C516A49C for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donald.teed@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35E013C461 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:39:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donald.teed@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so769306wra.13 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:39:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=MvuppBcUvhstObPS7eEe4bBPVXdMnHHfgt1DdP1Lk7Y=; b=AuaZBIpA9hj4xQ8GdVgDQUizDi6/s7+uFkd4V80JenDE4WrmhB3ADMClzQoYW+/JpkmWfk4pZitS4wZs4Wdfy1/XeDDpQC0sCfs8g2Z+dUU241a6l57Yf8a3hOj4ZAJ29AbVYkB9WTZHjbdkvHYJXW0NgcVj2Suz6W5z/v93ueE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Okgen64tmgV4dZ/6fTFywjhahhQhqepb9MfiF7f6/vXG0Uq8Z70qZfkEI1kZAdHoLgZewxqQy1fQvZGxY21LWHbxZXMH08hsIhw6Aw3rBSNM7ojvxy9d0gTygnGlQMm/Sk2Uv4/0HdEc1OG2EBurti/DJFUlFpZGjZVcRm5nx2o= Received: by 10.142.225.11 with SMTP id x11mr2460097wfg.141.1201538358871; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:39:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.237.19 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:39:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:39:18 -0400 From: "D G Teed" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <479DC9D2.7050707@student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <479D6E97.6060100@gmx.net> <20080128090005.V1235@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <479DA0EF.8090609@math.arizona.edu> <479DC9D2.7050707@student.utwente.nl> Subject: Re: suggested size of /var/mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:39:21 -0000 Oh, so there is no MX involved? It just arrives from an external MX? Or not? Or are they using Cyrus? Or not? 20 users? 15,000 users? Should it be on a storage system capable of future expansion? See what I mean? On Jan 28, 2008 8:25 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: > 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 > >