OT: mail server /var/mail

[Martin Hepworth]

Sujith Emmanuel wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>      Sorry for the OT topic, but i thought it'll hard to look for better 
> mailadmins outside this group.
>      I have a mail server on solaris 2.8. Sometimes my /var/mail/ folder 
> becomes very big. As far as my little knowledge is concerned, /var/mail 
> is used for storing unread mails and /export/home for actual mbox after 
> reading the mail. But even after people reads their mail, it is still 
> left at /var/mail.
>      What i do now when the size becomes huge is to ask the users to 
> delete some of their mails. Can anyone point me in the right direction? 
> btw, most of the users use pine for checking mail.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Sujith Emmanuel
> 
Hi

depends on how you pop/imap server works as to where it keeps email 
after reading. Perhaps you can say which program you use as the pop or 
imap server.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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