users filling up disk microsoft office outlook 2013 ?

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Sat Mar 7 18:42:12 EST 2015


On Sat, Mar 7, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> 
> Quoting David Carter <dpc22 at cam.ac.uk>, Fri, 06 Mar 2015:
> 
> > On 2015-03-05 23:47, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, at 08:34 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Quoting Frank Richter <frank.richter at hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>, Thu, 05
> >>> Mar 2015:
> >>>
> >>> > Last night ecactly this  happened on our mail server the 1st time.
> >>> > One partition was filled up ... The user was noticing "some
> >>> > duplicate messages", but not thousands. I'll check up if a virus
> >>> > scanner is involved in our case.
> >
> >> This isn't a Cyrus issue or even something that Cyrus can fix I
> >> don't think :(
> >
> > One thing which would help is a limit on the amount of expunged data
> > which can be held in a single mailbox before an expire automatically
> > kicks in.
> 
> As far as I know there isn't a way to actually see this from cyrus.
> For know I have a script that goes over every mailbox and does a a du  
> and cyrus quota lookup.  If they are to much different (e.g. 200MB  
> difference) I force an expunge.
> 
> This also catches mailboxes that haven't been expired like it should be.
> 
> An other way to catch clients that are misbehaving is to count nr of  
> entries for user_deny for that user in the log file.  The client that  
> is misbehaving is always at the head of the list.

We have a plan to keep the count in the cyrus.index header and
make it available via an annotation(metadata).

https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3562

Bron.

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