>Rod, >I'd point out that the same problem occurs on any platform where email >flows in from the internet be it UNIX, NT or any other. Its a function >of hard drive space. The best thing I've found is incentive-be it >deleteing mail or incentive for picking up mail. Maybe you could create >a login message/user group for people who don't get there mail and >mildly annoy them until they take some initiative.
Just last week we had a user get an unsolicited 525mb attachment. That, coupled with non-cleaned out mailboxes, left our MAIL partition with less than .5mb of free space, and Mail Server started writing zero k files for each incoming message.
So we lost data (Mail Server treated the zero k messages as good recipients), and people were mad.
My point is, a gateway limit on the size of attachments incoming/outgoing would have prevented this.
And I had to use DiskTop (remember that one?) to search for files older than a certain date and of a certain Creator, because if I just search by SIZE or by DATE, I end up wiping out files that people have in their Web Space folders. The whole maintenance issue has become very sticky.
