Topic: Mailbox size limits

[phowardcom]

I am currnelty using M$ Exchange 5.5 as an email server for about 50 or so users. A lot of the users archive almost every email they ever send/get sent.

The problem with Exchange is that in its default config there is  a 16GB limit on the amount of emails each server can store.

I am thinking of moving from exchange to SME with Group-Office as a front end but need to make sure that there are no limits to the amount of space emails etc can take up.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Paul

[Mumm-Ra]

A very big hard drive.

Don't know if the linux 2GB max file size will be an issue here but my data file for my inbox is currently 500MB so there may be a 2GB limit on 1 data file.
As long as your users don't keep all their mail in their inbox you might just get away with it.

[phowardcom]

I dont think that will be a problem as the 16GB is spread over 50 users with no 1 user having more than 1GB or so.

[Mumm-Ra]

Don't forget that you could always enable quotas for every user too.

[Reinhold]

Phoward,

Regarding filelimits for the (rather old) kernel ext2/3 SME setup ... and how to increase them before the Centos version comes out have a look at:

http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

ext2/3 with 4 KiB blocksize    
File Size Limit: 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB)
Filesystem Size Limit:    16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)

On 32-bit systems with Kernel 2.4.x: The size of a file and a block device is limited to 2 TiB. By using LVM several block devices can be combined enabling the handling of larger file systems.

Regards
Reinhold

[aussie]

Phoward,

Regarding filelimits for the (rather old) kernel ext2/3 SME setup ... and how to increase them before the Centos version comes out have a look at:

http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

ext2/3 with 4 KiB blocksize    
File Size Limit: 2048 GiB (= 2 TiB)
Filesystem Size Limit:    16384 GiB (= 16 TiB)

On 32-bit systems with Kernel 2.4.x: The size of a file and a block device is limited to 2 TiB. By using LVM several block devices can be combined enabling the handling of larger file systems.

Regards
Reinhold

I read this article - very interesting.


SME6.0 uses et3 filesystem and a kernel high enough to  suggest it fits per this article.
Does SME6.0 support LFS?
How would one know if it is in the kernel?
TIA & sorry for my ignorance, ROb