Disk Usage/default Email Problem

[satuurnalia]

Hi. For a few weeks now, I have been getting an email warning me of my disk usage. I deleted old files, cleaned everything up a bit and still kept getting the warnings. I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I noticed that my mail directory was taking up almost 400 megs. Grrrr. I knew the email accounts I actually use weren't taking up all that space so... still confused, I logged into webmail (horde) and checked my default email address. There were 35,000 messages. All junk.

 

Ok, I read through past forum topics, and just to be sure I'm getting this...

the solution to this would be to set the default email to :fail: correct?

 

Also...

is there a faster way to delete all that spam so I can get all my disk space back?

There are 1500 pages of junk I need to delete and that will take forever!

 

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

Yes, set your default accounts to :fail: and most will be eliminated.

 

You can open a help desk ticket with the help desk and ask them to purge the inbox of that account for you.

[satuurnalia]

Thank you very much, I'll do that.

[telcor]

the solution to this would be to set the default email to :fail: correct?

 

You can also set it to :blackhole:

 

The difference:

 

:fail: bounces the message with an error

:blackhole: simply deletes the message.

[TCH-Andy]

Telcor, you are correct, however, :blackhole: option accepts everything sent to the domain mail server and then deletes email addressed to nonexistent accounts. This option uses the full amount of bandwidth, and also requires that the server read and write messages to disk before they are deleted. Multiply this by 1,000-or-so messages a day and you can imagine the impact on server resources.

 

The :fail: setting stops emails addressed to invalid recipients from entering the mail server in the first place. The mail server will reject each message during the SMTP handshake conversation - therefore the actual email message will never make it to your server, and the sender's email server will have to deal with the stuck message. This is much more effective, and also in the case of legitimate email in which the sender has actually misspelled the recipient's email address, the sender would receive a bounce message informing him that the domain could not be reached, enabling him to correct the error.

 

Hence, overall, we'd much prefer :fail:

[snoopyishere]

I set the :fail: to default email and I haven't received one email since, it has been almost a week. I sent myself a test email from another account and it didn't arrive.

 

Now what?

Thanks

Snoopy

[TCH-Bruce]

What did you set to :fail: ?

 

If you are send email to a valid email address on your account you should be receiving email. If you are not, please open a ticket with the help desk and have them take a look.