On 03-Dec-98 Philip Hazel wrote:
> The big problem we have with POP is the Eudora users who select the
> "leave mail on server" button. How do ISPs cope with that, or do they
> lock out that option somehow?
We keep a check on user mailbox sizes. When they get ridiculous (usu.
>10MB which is, plainly, ridiculous!) they are normally moved out of the
way and we then wait until said user screams... it doesn't have to be
done very often, mind, as the default install of Eudora here has 'leave
messages...' unchecked.
> The other problem we have is that users configure their POP agents to
> poll the server at ridiculously short intervals, like every 30
> seconds,
If the POP system spots someone making excessive polls to the server it
will mail them (giving a count of the number of polls they did in one
hour) and ask them to reconfigure their mailer to a lower poll time or
contact the Helpdesk for details. We do however sometimes get stroppy
messages back from them about it (cf. the recent thread about replying
to automatically generated messages) The overhead of this isn't too
high, but I didn't write it and can't even begin to say what it does.
Graeme
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Graeme Fowler
Network Officer, Infrastructure & Networks Group
Loughborough University Computing Services
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