Ever wondered what 862M of spam smells like? As you can see from this output some users are not cleaning out their spam folders:
du -hs /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/*/user/*/x-spam
376K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/a/user/alephone/x-spam
9.8M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/a/user/alex/x-spam
56K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/a/user/alistair/x-spam
148K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/b/user/bjb/x-spam
64K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/d/user/dangeross/x-spam
9.4M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/d/user/david/x-spam
250M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/d/user/dragon/x-spam
355M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/e/user/emberglow/x-spam
366M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/f/user/frank/x-spam
12M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/h/user/heather/x-spam
25M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/h/user/helen/x-spam
112K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/i/user/ivan/x-spam
194M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/james/x-spam
719M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/jason/x-spam
16K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/jenny/x-spam
12M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/joanna/x-spam
172M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/jonathan/x-spam
16K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/j/user/julie/x-spam
5.5M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/k/user/ken/x-spam
9.5M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/maggie/x-spam
698M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/manch/x-spam
328M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/matthew/x-spam
60K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/mattj/x-spam
235M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/matt/x-spam
92K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/mea/x-spam
236K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/mile/x-spam
65M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/monty/x-spam
164K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/n/user/nayetennant/x-spam
488K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/n/user/naye/x-spam
1.8M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/n/user/nick/x-spam
16K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/n/user/nid/x-spam
1.4M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/p/user/penchick/x-spam
5.3M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/ralphael/x-spam
418M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/rgkx/x-spam
1.2G /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/robert/x-spam
26M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/rob/x-spam
28K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/rslomkow/x-spam
15M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/ryan/x-spam
193M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/sgibson/x-spam
7.8M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/shelly/x-spam
39M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/simon/x-spam
652M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/stuart/x-spam
28K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/t/user/tam/x-spam
862M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/t/user/thomas/x-spam
119M /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/t/user/tim/x-spam
232K /mnt/vault/backups/cave.imaginator.com/var/spool/cyrus/mail/z/user/zax0r/x-spam
Thankfully Cyrus, the mailserver I use, has an option to expire messages older than a certain time. I’ll turn on expiry of spam messages older than 30 days.
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