Re: [Exim] Scalability

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Author: John (TJ) Penton
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To: Joseph Kezar
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Scalability
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, 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?


Educate your users on appropraite uses for such a large mailing list.

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