To: Alex <xela@mit.edu>
Cc: Len Giambrone <frodo@mit.edu>, Michael T Lugo <mtlugo@mit.edu>,
   sipb@mit.edu
Subject: Re: spam screening
References: <200307161536.LAA20680@open-boozeware.mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 2003 10:12:15 -0400
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Alex <xela@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > Using rmm only marks the mail for deletion, and does not actually delete the
> > mail.  After running rmm, use purge to actually delete the mail and bring
> > yourself below quota:
> > 
> > athena% purge
> > 
> >                         -Len
> 
> Which solves his immediate problem, but not the underlying problem.
> spam-inc ought to give a more useful message.  (Or it ought not to 
> continue to send the message when the contents of the folder are
> marked for deletion by the expunger, provided the expunger has bits
> in the user's spam directory --- I'd say writing a more useful
> message would be less work.)  Perhaps one of the authors of spam-inc
> will volunteer to fix this?  I'll do it myself if someone will 
> point me to the source.

And how do you suppose the program is supposed to detect the amount of
space you've got marked for purging?  That's a LONG process -- it
literally has to 'find' through your whole tree looking for marked
files.  Not a short process.  "fs lq", on the other hand, is really
quick -- and I suspect that's what is being used.

You're welcome to change it, but the performace will probably suck
hairy rocks.

> ---Alex

-derek

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