Hi Martin,
We were talking about "the" spam folder in the user mailbox. If the user
does not want to look at it, mail wil get deleted after a certain time in
order to make sure it does not eat up the entire server/mailbox.
My ISP (xs4all.nl) overhere has taken that road as well as users were
starting to complain that they could not receive any mail. Turned out in
most cases the cause was a multi MB spam folder in the mailbox the users
were never looking at. :-( They were just POPing the mail, never checking
the SPAM folder for false positives or whatever.
So the solution overthere is if the user does not care to check the spam
folder, mail in the SPAM folder get's deleted after x days or if it reaches
x % of the mailbox size.
Kevin, maybe that's another idea. To have "the" spam folder auto delete
action trigered on the percentage of the size compared to either the mailbox
size or the percentage free size.
Groetjes,
Bonno Bloksma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Graveen" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Feature Requests -> Delete mail in
sub-mailbox after X number of days
Hi Michael,
This sounds a bit dangerous to me. Do you really want to delete unread
mails from an user?
This wouldn't work here in our country, it's against some laws and privacy
policies...
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Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 um 14:17 schrieben Sie:
Hello,
In my example, as soon as the sub mailbox hits 20MB the size would be
reduced to 10MB, deleting the oldest messages first. So the sub mailbox
would have to get 10MB more of mail before it would happen again. Unless
people were getting 10s of MBs of mail, it shouldn't be running that
often.
Thanks,
Mike
At 12:27 AM 11/18/2005, you wrote:
Hi,
Great idea but I would like that service to be run on one or more
specified times and not each instance a mail is delivered. If the spam
mailbox is max 20MB then EVERY time a spam mail is delivered the whole
20MB spam mailbox file has to be rewritten as you want the oldest mail at
the top of the file to be removed.
Better would be then to have a schedule to do this once (or twice) at
night when the server is relatively idle. I would then set it to make a
run like that in the evening just befoire the backup run starts, and in
the morning just before everyone starts to read/send mail.
Groetjes,
Bonno Bloksma
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Graveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:28 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail Feature Requests -> Delete mail in
sub-mailbox after X number of days
I don't know if this has been requested. I would like the ability to
automatically delete messages in a sub-mailbox after that mailbox
reaches
a certain amount (in megabytes). It would delete the oldest messages
first. SmaterMail has this ability and I really find it useful.
For example:
I route my clients email that fails my SPAM tests to the clients
sub-mailbox called SPAM. I don't trust that my client will actually
delete his/her unwanted mail. I have my threshold set to 20MB. So I
would like to have the messages in the SPAM sub-mailbox deleted from
20MB+, to let's say 10MB (deleting the oldest messages first). That way
if the client doesn't actively get rid of their mail in the SPAM
sub-mailbox, it will go way on it's own. So the client will always have
between 10MB and 20MB of their most recent potential SPAM on hand (so
they do have some time to look at it). I hope this makes sense.
Thanks,
Mike
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