[8491] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AIX Mail stored in AFS space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leif Johansson)
Tue Feb 13 12:22:54 2001
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To: Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Touretsky, Gregory" <gregory.touretsky@intel.com>,
"'R McGee'" <mcgee@us.ibm.com>, info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:30:24 CST." <20010213103024.B26944@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:16:10 +0100
From: Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>
> How do you deal with the quota issue? It's been our experience that
> files will be reset to a zero length if they're appended to and a user
> is over quota, which doesn't bode well for mailboxes.
>
I can't speak from experience (yet) but we are planning to start
to use courier-imap from AFS quite soon. Courier imap and the
maildrop local mail delivery agent that comes with it stores each
mail in a separate file which at least solves the quota problem...
Cheers Leif
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