yes i'm perfectly aware on that 'ethics' part. but yes, its just a closed group, and we can give rules. its for their good also. so deleting old mails in this case is 'authorized'.
if i'm an ISP, of course its always safe to say to the sender that the recepient's inbox is full. however, my case is that its my duty that the sender sucessfully sends the email and recepient gets the email also in spite of external factors (eg. his ISP strength, his inbox quota, etc). sucessfully sending out the important email from my system to his provider isn't counted as a success. having the recepient receive the email to his desktop makes the whole thing a success. i run sendmail not qmail... so its quite tricky since sendmail stores inbox emails in one file. anyways, back to the question. any script? where to get it? -----Original Message----- From: Juan Miguel Cacho Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [plug] mail purge But do you have the authority/right to delete the users' mail? Baka magalit. At least if new mail bounces, the sender can send the message again some other time. If you delete old messages, the user won't know what messages he/hse missed. -----Original Message----- From: Pong Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: RE: [plug] mail purge new mails bouncing due to quota (user's fault) is better in general than deleting existing emails (your fault). ISPs never do this. but if it's just your companiy's mail users (a closed group), and your boss gave u a 'go' signal, then i guess deleting old mails would be considerable. pong _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
