[Dovecot] Question regarding layout.

[Johan Hendriks]

Curtis Maloney schreef:
> Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> I have a question regarding my mail flow.
>>
>> We have some users who are in a mail group (alias), and these alias 
>> receives a lot of attached documents.
>> So i have the document in all the mailboxes of the alias.
>> If the attached document is 2MB and that is not rare, i have 10 times 
>> 2 MB on my mail server.
>> Is there a way to tackle this.
>> Maybe by making the alias a mailbox itself and give other users acces 
>> or are there other options.
>
> I understand that, if you're using Maildir, Dovecot deliver can be 
> smart and lay down a single file, and hardlink or symlink it to each 
> folder, thus having one physical copy for N users.
>
> The documentation on dovecot's LDA mentions the -p option which will 
> hard-link when using maildir, if possible, specifically for this case.
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
>
>> Also i have very lame and lazy users.
>
> Don't we all, mate? :)
>
>> They refuse to clean thrash cans (i asked about that earlier,and got 
>> that tackled through the expire plugin.),also the do not remove old 
>> mail not even reading it.
>
>> So is there also a option to remove mail that is not been opened, and 
>> is older than xx days or weeks.
>
> There's expire (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire) though I'm 
> personally in favor of Quotas -- even if you only go as far as making 
> users request an expanded quota when they reach their limit, it makes 
> them realise how much they're using, AND makes it a chore...
>
> Another thing to look into is the zlib plugin.  If you're using mbox, 
> this will allow you to use compressed, read-only folders.  If you're 
> using Maildir, it allows you to compress individual messages. 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib
>
> Someone recently posted a tool to implement something close to the 
> process described at the bottom of that page.
>
> -- 
> Curtis Maloney
Thanks for the pointer, but the -p option is not recommended.
the Zlib option might be a good solution.
And maybe we just need to set the quota and let the users deal with it!
6 Gb + mail in one year is just to much to keep laying around in your 
mailbox.

thanks for your time.
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