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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:08:40 -0700 (MST)
From:      Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>
To:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        mad@adc.com
Subject:   Re: Mail Quotas and Flames
Message-ID:  <199612032208.PAA28960@xmission.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612031647.IAA28001@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 3, 96 08:47:34 am

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> I it possible to assign a quota on incoming mail so that a user getting
> flammed does not fill up the /var partition?

If you already have quotas enabled on the user's home filesystem, symlink
each user's mailbox to ~user/.mbox or something like that.  You'll need
to configure all of your MUAs to look for the mail spool in that directory
as well.

--
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com



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