[lug] [OT] Mail accessibility...

[John Hernandez]

Doesn't an INBOX size quota deal with this problem in a straightforward 
way?  It seems reasonable, too; my snail postman wouldn't put up with 
my house mailbox being stuffed full of old mail.  You can then charge 
extra ducats for a larger INBOX.

To deal with DoS and people going on vacation, you can also make it 
policy to only count messages older than a week or two against the quota.

Is there a good OSS package for this kind of thing?

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:49:31PM +0000, phutnick at pop.peakpeak.com wrote:
> 
>>Don't dismiss IMAP out of hand.  It really rocks.  ISPs tend to be down on it
>>for disk space reasons, but disk is getting cheaper faster than mail is getting
>>bigger, and you have to store the mail on the server to do webmail anyway.
>>
> 
> You might think that, but ISP users tend to be pretty bad about cleaning
> out messages in their boxes.  A few thousand new messages thends to make
> people on slow dial-up lines VERY cranky.  The odd half terrabyte of
> storage for a server-class machine is still pretty expensive to handle 10k
> users...
> 
> Sean
> 


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