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List:       ngw
Subject:    Re: Some questions...
From:       "Matt Vigus" <mvigus () mailnet ! co ! za>
Date:       1999-09-14 13:38:50
Message-ID: s7de6c10.031 () coopnw ! mailnet ! co ! za
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I agree with Dennis

Maybe youre PO's are pushing the limits a bit, I was involved with a university po \
migration and the numbers were big! there is a  good tid on Novels site about GW \
sizing (cant rememer the tid no...) , but my recomendation was shot down when I \
posted to the list ( and the university almost c$%p@d themselves when I explained \
they needed some new servers)!

I also think the limit is normal for your sent items folder.

As for the size of the mails that you students are sending, are you using GWIA? You \
could limit the size of all outgoing & incoming mail ( assuming this is internet \
mail...) ???

Unfortunatly there is no way to limit the size of a GWmailbox, so youre on the right \
track running a statistics check to see who  has the big files...

Welcome to the list...
It has helped me out of some sticky situations, the people on it are generally very \
knowagable and extremely helpfull. When your contracting, you need some help!

Hope this helps

> From a sunny Joburg

Matt Vigus


> > > "Dennis Large" <dennis.large@louisville.edu> 09/14/99 03:05PM >>>
> Hi!
> 
> Yesterday i becmae a member of this mailinglist and i have already found 
> some good awnsers to known problems...
> So i thougt i d try with some questions of my own...
> I m sure someone out there has the answer!!!
> Greetings from a cold Kiruna in the north of Sweden.

Welcome from a very dry Kentucky.

> 
> We re runing gw 5.2.3 on netware 4.11
> All clients are win95 with novel client 3.1 sp1.
> Totaly 5100users within 2 postoffices.

Woah! Big POs.

> 
> 1. Users can t see their sent items, if the number of items exceeds 1260.
> If i ve sent 1259 mails they all show in the sent items folder. If i sent 1261 
> mails the last mail (nr 1261) wont show in the sent items folder. The user 
> have to delete some old mails for the latest to show up....
> The mails are found if you do a search, but not direct.
> This occured on several users that came to as many as 1260... Anyone 
> has any ideas ?

I think that's normal.

> 
> 2. We are administrating schools. Our problem is the quotasystem in gw. 
> (It s missing ?) The problems is that the students love to fill thier mailboxes 
> with the latest quakeround, mp3files, games etc.etc
> What is the best way to solve this problem ?. I understand that you can 
> autoarchive mails older than x days into the users homedirectory, and there 
> recieve the restrictions put up by the filesystem. But only by postoffices, is 
> that right ? The restriction is not ment to be for all the users in our 
> postoffices...
> Any hints ?

This always gets into a religious argument around here, so I won't go into what's \
actually being done. But my thoughts on it:

1) auto archive is nice, but generally speaking you're archiving crap people have \
forgotten about. You're better off doing an autodelete after some reasonable time - \
60-90 days. Make sure they have archive space available wherever they want it, so \
they can save valid stuff on their own. (If you use something other than home dir and \
lock that down, you can still use dir quotas to limit that part, if desired.)

2) To do auto cleanups, remember you have 2 options; a) client options to delete \
after xx days or b) scheduled maint job where you can pick based on dates, disk \
usage, etc.
> 
> 2B
> I run gw-check, statistics,  every week to see what users who use most 
> space (42000798 bytes in use by users mail) 
> Is there a 3d part program who can read these gw-check-files and give me 
> like a top ten list of the users using most space ? I now search the 
> checkfiles manually to find the highest number in the "in use by section"
> 
> Thankful for any hints...
> 
> Martin Lidström
> ITC Kiruna
> 
> 


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