This single-instance storage is going to encourage bad habits! I just found myself preparing an e-mail that needs to be sent to multiple recipients - including several within my own organization - yet it's not necessary for everyone (in-house) to get the large attachment. As I was getting ready to split the message into two parts for distribution I remembered - I can just send it to EVERYBODY in-house and it only occupies a single instance - which it would anyway just being in my "sent" folder! Blasting away... You're quite the enabler, Timo! Now any mail admin who tries to lecture users on only sending attachments to those in-house personnel who really need it, because otherwise it's wasteful of precious server storage space, is going to hear the response, "Dude - don't stress out so much - just setup Dovecot with SIS!". Thanks again! -- Daniel
On Dom, 2010-11-14 at 22:34 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:> > You're quite the enabler, Timo! Now any mail admin who tries to lecture > users on only sending attachments to those in-house personnel who really > need it, because otherwise it's wasteful of precious server storage > space, is going to hear the response, "Dude - don't stress out so much - > just setup Dovecot with SIS!". > > Thanks again!Hi, I have to agree that Dovecot promotes bad habits. For instance we used to have to check cpu usage graphics for our IMAP servers several times a day with the previous server software, now sometimes a day passes and we don't check it. At first the operations dudes would notice our not logging in and call to check if we're sick, if our fifth grandfather had passed away or if we had hurt both our hands playing badminton, again, now they just look with a weird you-lazy-bastard kind of look. Also we used to be called often because of IMAP problems and we were always full alert, nowadays we sometimes don't even answer the phone if we're in the middle of a urban terror game because we're almost sure that the call is not to report a problem and those nice red team folks really depend on our headshot skills and the blue team ones on our grenade throwing disability. I think Timo should quit the crap and revert some patches to institute the old and healthy practices!! -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Assumption is the Mother of Screw-Up" -- Mr. John Elwood Hale
Daniel L. Miller put forth on 11/15/2010 12:34 AM:> Now any mail admin who tries to lecture > users on only sending attachments to those in-house personnel who really > need it, because otherwise it's wasteful of precious server storage > space, is going to hear the response, "Dude - don't stress out so much - > just setup Dovecot with SIS!".No, the OP won't hear this from end users. They don't even know what Dovecot is, will have never heard of it nor "SIS". The only folks he might take grief from is fellow sysadmins. But why would they care? Also, what if at some point management forces you to dump Dovecot and move to a platform that doesn't offer SIS? If you change your tune with said users now, in the future, you may have screwed yourself after re-educating your users to the "SIS" way. -- Stan