Re: /var and mail inboxes

Roland Turner (raz@nospam.arrakis.com.au)
Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:28:50 +1000

At 07:38 PM 7/23/96 +1000, Christian Kent wrote:
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>
>On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Cam Dorrington wrote:
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>> I think it is about time that everyone was reminded once again
>> that it is not acceptabe to have large mail boxes.
>
>How large is large?

More than, say, 300Kb. (Currently you have around 430Kb).

The idea is that you not leave your email in your inbox. Shift it to some
other folder. If you don't, pine/elm leaves it in your inbox, which is on
the shared mailspool.

>The only reason I've kept my mail on ftoomsh (or wherever in progsoc) is
>that I haven't yet worked out how to have a second mailbox via PPP and
>netscape and download it all like I do with my SoCS mail...

I think that someone else has already pointed out that you can simply
arrange for your ftoomsh mail to be forwarded to, say, your SoCS account.

(Who didn't read his TFM then, hmm?)

>It's not like I request/send binaries or anything.

Nonetheless, you (any many others!) have quite a large inbox.

>How bad is the situation with space for WWW access? Surely there must be
>enough MB to go round?

Ahh, I don't follow. WWW access takes no space (apart from logs, which are
managed seperately.) Individual home pages are kept in user home directories
(~/public_html) and included in your disk space utilisation. Your email
inbox is NOT in your home directory, it's in a shared space called the mail
spool (/var/mail).

- Raz
- Raz

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