Dear Managers,
Suggestions are as follows:
1. Set quota on mail spool; (Nearly most responses suggested)
2. Set cronb job to mail users when the mail spool file is too large;
3. Set cronb job to move mail spool file to users'home when too large;
4. Set cronb job to remove old mail;
5. Post "Top" chart regularly listing the users with the largest mail spool files;
6. Obtain efficient program to better manage the mail spool (I have send mail to request);
7. Use Sendmail config.(?) to limit the size of mail spool;
8. Link mail spool files to users'directories (least suggested).
Please forgive me if I have missed yours.
Thanks to the quick responses from:
Randall Plaisier <plaisier@bright.net>
"Cheng, Bruce" <Bruce.Cheng@aspect.com>
Matthew Stier <mstier@mindspring.com>
Tony Ching-Tung Wu <tonywu@cyberhouse.com.tw>
Alan M Stanier <alan@essex.ac.uk>
Torsten Metzner <tom@plato.uni-paderborn.de>
ead@ixian.com
Luca Pizzinato <Pizzinato@eumetsat.de>
mattb@deakin.edu.au
Glenn Carver <glenn@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk>
Anderson McCammont <and@morgan.com>
llchan@kdupg.edu.my (chan ling ling)
"Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
john benjamins <johnb@Soliton.COM>
The Unseen <ian@ian.south-border.com>
Dave McFerren <davem@solve.net>
Bob Woodward <bobw@kramer.filmworks.com>
"Matthew J. Hill" <MHILL@graver.com>
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Original question:
Many of our users seldom delete their mail and leave them in the mail spool. Hence our "/var/mail/"
is getting very large. Could someone please suggest methods in limiting the size of files in mail
spool? I have tried to link the mail spool to users' home and was unsuccessful. The users' home
directories are auto-mounted. And the "/var/mail" is exported and mounted by other workstations.
Thanks very much for your help.
Regards
Alan
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