From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 26 17:16:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18302 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jupiter.connecticom.com (jupiter.connecticom.com [209.3.110.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18295 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitt@connecticom.com) Received: from [209.3.110.25] (orion.connecticom.com [209.3.110.25]) by jupiter.connecticom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA16756; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:15:05 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: sysadmin@mail.connecticom.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19981026185229.A386@csw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:15:11 -0500 To: Scott Lambert , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kitt Diebold Subject: Re: Expiring old mail? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just installed cucipop as my POP3 server. It has two BIG advantages to me: 1. Doesn't make a copy of the users mail file, so I can use quotas without a problem 2. Allows you to set an expire on the mail. I have it set up to annoy customers by forcing them to download undeleted mail on the server that is over 4 weeks old. That was they can get it and delete it themselves (and figure out that they shouldn't check that damn button in Netscape....). Take a look at the man pages. You can also set it up to autodelete the mail. YMMV -Kitt >Hi, > >I recently ran into a problem with my mail server. The /var/mail disk filled >up. (not good) > >Anyway after several hours of "mail -f username" and deleting 7 month-old un- >read messages and > 1 month-old read messages, I freed up approximately 700MB >of disk. (Why do people subscribe to every mailing list on the planet and >not read their mail?) > >We have approximately 9,000 e-mail accounts on our mail server. Is there an >"expire" like tool for the mail spool files? I would like to be able to >setup rules such as "any un-read mail more than 2 months old gets deleted" >and "any read mail more than 1 month old gets deleted." That should give our >users enough time to get their mail onto all the machines they may want. It >will also allow someone to be out of town for up to 7 weeks without losing >any e-mail. Perhaps unread of 3.5 months would be better to allow for summer >vacation. > >Thanks for any suggestions, > >Scott Lambert >Mail, News, and Shell Administrator Connecticom, Inc. (716) 546-3510 http://www.connecticom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message