Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:57:15 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: softweyr@xmission.com (Softweyr LLC) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mad@adc.com Subject: Re: Mail Quotas and Flames Message-ID: <199612040857.JAA11330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199612032208.PAA28960@xmission.xmission.com> from "Softweyr LLC" at Dec 3, 96 03:08:21 pm
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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. doesn't work. The usual delivery agent, mail.local, runs with root permissions and couldn't care lessa bout quotas. Luigi
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