Huge Inbox

[Wander]

Sorry, the platform is Compaq/HP AlphaServer 4100 running Cyrus Imap 2.1.5.

Wander


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Wanderley O. Mendes
Software Specialist             wander at cptec.inpe.br
Phone: +55-12-560-8432          Fax: +55-12-560-8435
INPE/CPTEC - Cachoeira Paulista - São Paulo - Brazil
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Quoting Jules Agee <julesa at pcf.com>:

> You didn't say what platform you're using... if you are running Cyrus 
> with the mailstore on a traditional UFS or ext3 filesystem you might 
> start seeing the filesystem become a bottleneck if a single mailbox has 
> a lot of messages. We run Cyrus on Linux and also have a lot of users 
> with very full mailboxes. Using ReiserFS makes a noticable difference 
> for a lot of our users, and in overall server load.
> 
> Wander wrote:
> > Some of our users really doesn´t have much time to decrease the INBOX,
> neither 
> > distributing messages across subfolders or deleting it as fast as could be
> 
> > necessary and as consequence, theirs INBOX are growing and growing and
> making 
> > things very slow... I´m figuring out how many admins could have the same 
> > problem and if someone already had implemented a solution against this kind
> of 
> > user. One idea could be implement a kind of INBOX maintenance like the one
> 
> > implemented to sent-mail.
> > Any experiences with that?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Wander
> > 
> > PS: We´re using Horde 2.1/IMP 3.1/PHP 4.2.2/HTTP 2.0.39
> > 
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> > Wanderley O. Mendes
> > Software Specialist             wander at cptec.inpe.br
> > Phone: +55-12-560-8432          Fax: +55-12-560-8435
> > INPE/CPTEC - Cachoeira Paulista - São Paulo - Brazil
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> Jules Agee
> System Administrator
> Pacific Coast Feather Co.
> julesa at pcf.com      x284
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