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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:47:50 -0600 (CST)
From:      "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mad@adc.com
Subject:   Re: Mail Quotas and Flames
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.92.961204114605.27102D-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612040857.JAA11330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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>From what I understand, procmail in place of mail.local solves the problem
nicely (it runs as the user being delivered to) and even makes a nice little
"sorry this chump has a full mailbox" message a-la AOL...

Charles

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > > 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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