deliver.db == 50MB

[Ted Cabeen]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mike Cathey wrote:
>> I just wanted to see if it was normal to see the deliver db get this
>> big...
>
>> ____SNIP____
>> -rw-------    1 cyrus    mail          50M Jul 25 11:04 deliver.db
>> ____SNIP____
>> 
>
> It will get as big as you let it to.  Depends on frequency of prunning, and
> the ammount of traffic through lmtp.  Mine is at 11MB right now.

How often should it be pruned and what is the standard method for
doing so?

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