Re: [Exim] Scalability

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To: Joseph Kezar
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Scalability
[ On Wednesday, June 5, 2002 at 13:07:27 (-0400), Joseph Kezar wrote: ]
> Subject: [Exim] Scalability
>
> We have 1400 users happily using exim. We've implemented it about 8 months
> ago. Currently we are having issues with our email servers capacity. There
> is 30+GB of mail stored there. Here is a scenerio: One user has a humerous
> picture and decides to email it to all-staff@???. The picture
> is 1MB in size. The disk usage has just increased on our mailserver 1.4GB
> because of that one picture (1MB x 1400 users = 1.4GB). Is there anyway
> around this nightmere?


You might consider blocking all messages of more than about 150KB or so
and tell your users they _MUST_ use a proper file transfer protocol.... :-)

What's your POP/IMAP server?

Perhaps you also need something like Cyrus IMAP, with which you can
easily implement mailbox quotas.

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