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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