[tech] Re: Disk Usage on /home

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:23:53AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
[...]
> I'd give mail its own 4GB disk. /services should probably be expanded
> too.

That sounds pretty livable, as long as it never gets anywhere near
full. If there's the slightest risk it will, then it's better off how
it is.

> We should probably also look at doing some sendmail/MX frobbing so that
> morwong is primary MX, mooneye secondary and gulag tertiary, so that
[...]

I don't think that's a good idea on its own; the delay, the
not-insignificant traffic cost and the fundamental brokeness of a
failed connection with every email from outside PARNet turn me right
off it.

If we disabled SMTP and ICMP filtering for morwong, though, or if
there's a straightforward way to make mooneye the primary MX but still
deliver to morwong, that sounds like the go.

A different way to go is a standalone mail server (with backup MXes, of
course). The only way mail gets off it is POP or IMAP and for any
programs without remote mail support we can just wrap elm (say) in a
script which calls getmail first.

Nick.

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