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> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:51
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Converting to maildir
>
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:38 -0600, Jeff wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jason Pyeron
> <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And with regard to backup space, it might be time to suck it up and
> > tell your users that you need to implement mail quotas. How
> much are
> > you backing up from "Sent" and "Trash" because nobody
> maintains their
> > mail folders? A quota can be a great tool for teaching basic mail
> > folder housekeeping.
>
> +1 on quotas; they are virtuous even if capacity isn't a constraint -
> they force users to manage their data.
>
I am sorry if this comes across harsh, but you have no idea about the business
objectives, I never asked how do we keep our email size small. In fact I said it
was BIG and I had a performance issue.
> Regarding sent/trash/SPAM Cyrus IMAPd provides an "expire"
> annotation that can be applied to folders that will expire
> messages from the folders older than X number of days [on the
> server side, user doesn't have to login for this to happen].
> For example we expire sent-mail at
> 365 days, trash at 45 days, and SPAM at 14 days. This helps
> quite a bit against lazy-user-syndrome.
That is a recipe for fired lazy-sysadmin-syndrom.
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