--On Montag, 2. Februar 2004 14:13 -0500 Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a problem w/ a few select users spiking the load on our servers w/ > POP3D. The issue is that they've (intentionally or unintentionally) set > their POP3 client to not delete messages on the server. This means their > inbox grows to 100+ MB, which is a problem when their client checks for > new email every 10 mins or so. Our solution thus far has been to call > these people, and ask them to use IMAP. Is there another solution for > this? Ideally, we'd like to either: > > a) force messages to be deleted after they've been downloaded via POP3, or > b) deny access to a mailbox via POP3 if it grows past a certain size. > This would lock users out of their mailbox, which would cause them to call > us and fix their settings. > > Are either of these two options available? We're using an old version of > courier-pop (0.37.3, the version distributed w/ debian stable), so if > there's a newer version of courier that optimizes POP3 mailbox reading, > that would work as well. Both and more, see the changes.txt in the recent distribution. Additional solutions are quotas which will force the users to delete the contents from time to time, or a simple script which removes anything which has been read after some time from INBOX - three months storage time for read mail should to be more than generous for POP3 and the others have to upgrade to IMAP. You also have the ability to automatically deliver messages into the mailboxes matching certain criteria and safe some support-calls. Such a script could of course also disable access by setting the filsystem-permissions, or additional flags with a db-backend. Roland ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
