hi - what is a sensible way of removing old mails on a system that holds millions of users as a means of keeping storage requirements down.
the use of quotas is fine as a cap on individual accounts ... but this is a separate issue from removing old mail. a simple solution is to have a process that trawls the filesystem for old mails and deletes it. this is fine but means that the activity on the sotrage system is always non-zero and there may occasionally be locking issues when users log in via imap/pop./webmail. another solution is to use events triggers such as when the user logs in/out - but this is not useful for unused accounts which then accumulate unread mail. also triggering around user actitivity means that the same mailbox is beign competed for by two processes - the mail reader/writer and the cleaning process. any thoughts - what are the lessons learned in the area...? tariq Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
