Slightly off-topic question but very useful one

Fri Oct 24 13:31:43 EDT 2003

Maybe zoe is a start?
http://zoe.nu/
I find that very interesting.

Also, IMHO files isn't always the correct interface for a user. I work
in a shop where we spen most of our time finding and examining
information, something that often needs to be structured with mails to
costumers etc. I find most of my coworkest using mail for this in a
quite ok way. I often set quotas to around 1 -2 gb.

I think the idea is very interesting. Also take a look at Haystack:
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/
It's not there yet, but when it does, WOW!

Tarjei

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:53, Samuel Luxford-Watts wrote:
> Yes they are huge mailboxes.
> 
> This is a law firm, and often email is used as a convenient way of
> transferring documents back and forth between various parties. Email
> management is a HUGE topic at the moment in the legal IT world. For this
> very reason and large sums of money are being spent on solutions that, in my
> opinion, don't really solve the problem - just ease it.
> 
> Here and indeed the previous firm I worked for I have had to deal with users
> with mailboxes of almost 1Gb. I could easily modify our email gateway to
> strip attachments and place them in our DMS. I would be very interested in
> hearing of any (opensource) web based file/document management tool  that
> would integrate with a webmail client.
> 
> We only have around 90 users at this site and an exchange store of around
> 20-30Gb
> 
> We currently use exchange at the moment, but linux is creeping in to more of
> our network..... 
> 
> Sam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J Barber [mailto:mbarber at barbersweb.net] 
> Sent: 24 October 2003 17:16
> To: Jim Howell
> Cc: Ken Murchison; Cyrus Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Slightly off-topic question but very useful one
> 
> 
> This brings up another thread in this off-topic discussion.  Anyone know of
> a good web based file management tool that (preferably) can or cannot be
> integrated with a webmail client.
> 
> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Michael J Barber
> SUNY Plattsburgh
> CMS Computer Labs Technician
> 116D Feinberg Library
> Plattsburgh, NY 12901
> 518.564.2319
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> Quoting Jim Howell <jwh2 at cornell.edu>:
> 
> ^^ At 10:26 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> ^^ >Jim Howell wrote:
> ^^ >
> ^^ >>Hi,
> ^^ >>         I apologize for this off-topic question but I think we will
> all
> ^^ 
> ^^ >> find this useful.  What mailfile size limits do folks support and the 
> ^^ >> user mailbox quota size?  We are being told by some of our users that
> we ^^ 
> ^^ >> are too restrictive.  Here at Cornell we allow 15MB mailfiles from 8am
> 
> ^^ >> to 6pm and 100MB mailfiles from 6pm to 8am.
> ^^ >
> ^^ >Wow!  If you have users complaining about 15MB, let alone 100MB, you 
> ^^ >probably need to teach them that email isn't a file transfer protocol 
> ^^ >;)  If somebody needs to send a file that large, they should be emailing
> 
> ^^ >the link, and not the file.
> ^^ 
> ^^ Hi,
> ^^       I agree but people complain about the effort to setup the file 
> ^^ transfer vs email..  Sigh..  The complaint is more about the filesizes
> than ^^ 
> ^^ the quota, I just thought I'd kill two birds with one mailfile.. :) ^^
> Jim ^^ 
> ^^ 
> ^^ >A 200MB quota seems more than generous, except for the fact that you're 
> ^^ >allowing them to reach their quota with only 2 messages.  Perhaps
> allowing ^^ 
> ^^ >the users to "misuse" their email account in this way is what is causing
> 
> ^^ >the complaints?
> ^^ >
> ^^ >--
> ^^ >Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> ^^ >Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> ^^ >716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
> ^^ >--PGP Public Key--    http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
> ^^ >
> ^^ 
> ^^ Jim Howell
> ^^ CIT Messaging Systems Manager
> ^^ Cornell University
> ^^ 728 Rhodes Hall
> ^^ Email: jwh2 at cornell.edu
> ^^ Phone: 607-255-9369 
> ^^ 
> ^^ 
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