Gene,

Where do you work ? Don't know about Toomas' site but at mine the
users complain that we forbid individual messages exceeding 20 Meg.
A mailbox size limit ? Unthinkable.

                                                Brian

> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:57, Toomas Aas wrote:
> >> You have over 5 gigabytes of mail? I find that hard to believe,
> >> not even a major spammer would have that much.
> >
> >Alas. These days, when just about everybody sends mail in HTML
> > format, it is customary to send HUGE .doc files back and forth and
> > nobody ever deletes any old mail, it is not that uncommon.
> >
> >Just an example from our mail server (ca 300 users):
> >
> >root@data2:/data# du -h --max-depth=1 | grep MAIL
> >21G     ./MAIL
> 
> Good grief Toomas!  Can you not institute a mail box size limit, about 
> 10 megs maybe?
> 
> >--
> >Toomas Aas | toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee |
> > http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Why is there so much month left
> > at the end of the money?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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