Subject: Huge INBOX for some users

From: Jan Polcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 18:58:58 +0200

Hello,

All our mails are arriving on one machine, the mail server. This means
that at any time about 20 pine processes are running.

Some users have the bad habit of keeping all their mails in the INBOX. In
some cases they have up to 500 mails !! This means that our
/usr/spool/mail is always full (currently 30 Mb) and that they use up a
lot of memory on the mail server (about 20 Mb). It is not a real problem
but it is a waste of the common resources on the system. 

I was wondering if there was not a way around this. Would it be possible
for instance to force a save on some folder in the user domain as he quits
from pine ? Or save all messages from the past month (or week) in a
separate folder as is done for sent-mail ? 

There is always the possibility of explaining to people the advantage of
sorting their mail and so on, but I have given up on this solution !!

	Thanks for any advice you can give

		Jan

Jan Polcher                                              TEL: -33-1-44322243
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du CNRS            FAX: -33-1-43368392
École Normale Supérieure
24, rue Lhomond                                           [email-masked]
75231 PARIS cedex 05, FRANCE                 http://www.lmd.ens.fr/~polcher/

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen J. Weihman)
Date: 17 May 1996 15:46:07 GMT

In article <Pine.SUN.3.93.960515184258.20261K-100000@ella>,

>separate folder as is done for sent-mail ? 

There's a way to do this (I think).  You will need to setup a global fixed
configuration (normally located as /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed).  It
should look as follows: 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
feature-list=auto-move-read-msgs,
	expunge-without-confirm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Individual users will not be able to override these settings from within
their own setups.  Basically, this will move any read messages to a local
folder within their home directory (by default ~/mail/READBOX), and
delete them from their inbox when the quit Pine.

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