On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:07:27PM -0400, Joseph Kezar wrote:
> 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?
Use a mailing list management system which can do per list message size
restrictions among other things
Mailman is quite popular and is very compatible with exim:
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
We have 576 lists with mailman and a 30,000 user userbase so it scales
quite well :-) Biggest list to date is 10K users.
You can use mailman, or exim filters, to filter out attachments. You can
use SpamAssassin to limit spam to lists and Exiscan to remove viruses which
are another common cause of high mail volumes and filling mailboxes.
Mike
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