Re: [webmin-l] usermin delete messages problem

[Obantec S. <su...@ob...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Deugau" <kd...@vi...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] usermin delete messages problem


> Obantec Support wrote:
> > I have a user who's spam file is 120MB (he never users usermin to check
> > false positives).
> > He wanted to make space as he is close to his quota so i suggested he
look
> > to his spam file and delete any or all.
> >
> > now the problem is if he selects say 10 mails and hits delete he gets an
> > over quota message and cannot proceed.
> > i guess usermin is creating a temporary file which adds to his quota and
> > stops this action.
> >
> > i don't want to have to intervene when  a user has this problem.
> >
> > option1 have usermin use a file not owned by the user for the deletion
(if
> > that is the case)
>
> I can't point to a Usermin-specific solution, but this is exactly what I
> did with a similar problem for some users trying to delete spam via one
> of our webmail systems.  Rather than having the user's Trash mail folder
> owned by that user, I changed the ownership of that file to "nobody".
> That way, deletes can succeed because the IMAP action of copying a
> messge to the Trash folder on deletion didn't increase their disk usage.
>   I also set up a cron job to periodically trim everyone's Trash folder,
> in much the same way I had set spam folders to be kept somewhat under
> control.
>
> > option2 anyone got a cron script to check the spam file for older than
"n"
> > days and delete those spams.
>
> I've posted versions of the mail management scripts I wrote:
>
> http://www.deepnet.cx/~kdeugau/spamtools/
>
> Note that all of these scripts work on *nix mbox-format mailboxes;  it
> should be relatively simple to adapt them to maildir mailboxes.
>
> Cron entries for most of them look like this:
>
> # Spam expiry, automagical trash emptying, and quota warnings.
> 03 1 * * * root /root/autotrimtrash.pl
> 30 1 * * * root /root/custom-spam
> 30 2 * * * root /root/autoexpirespam.pl 25
> 45 3 * * * root /root/space_warn.pl
>
> -kgd
>
<snip>

Hi

all your files that end in .pl give 500 error. your server is trying to run
them!

i see Jamie is going to add an expiry which might help but i would like to
look at your code.

Mark