XS4ALL XXL mailbox management
Wednesday 20 April 2005 ◷ 00:09
Since april 1st XS4ALL provides 500MB mailboxes for clients who allow their mail to be spam-filtered. I don't have a lot of dummy friends who mail me outrageously large mails, so that is not even remotely interesting. But in the situation before I had my mail handled by procmail, which would make my mail end up in a folder in my home directory, and that would eat into my 50MB webspace. And recently I had been working at a bolted down office which didn't allow SSH traffic so I couldn't read my mail with mutt on the shell server, and I found out my procmail setup made the webmail service a bit useless.
So I made XS4ALL filter spam out of my mail, and don't bother to send it to some spambox. This allows my primary account to grow to 500MB. But it can't grow if it stays empty because procmail moves everything to my home dir. The solution is to find out there is a folder somewhere on /var/spool/mail/ with my name on it, that now allows up to 500MB of my data. To this space I moved my mailboxes which were previously in my homedir, and in my homedir I made symbolic links named "mail" and "Mail" to that mailboxtree. And then with a little configuration in webmail it's all set to manage up to 500MB of mail in mutt or with webmail. The only things not very perfect is the inbox is not the webmail inbox, and Folder internal mails show up in mutt.
I only do this because I don't expect important mails on this setup. Don't try this at home if you rely on your account. This is not very well tested, and it can break when BOFH does something that's not this weird...
nasty
Monday 25 April 2005 ◷ 00:47
re: XS4ALL XXL mailbox management
create a symlink and ftp heaps a files to those dirs.. :-P
i can create up to 250 mail boxes ... muhahahaha...