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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:39:18 -0400
From:      "D G Teed" <donald.teed@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suggested size of /var/mail
Message-ID:  <dd4da0390801280839h6de5680fpd775b60fe7125dad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <479DC9D2.7050707@student.utwente.nl>
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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
<a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> 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
>
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