Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:58:54 -0800 (PST) From: David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bouncing mail on quotas Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811121358370.21513-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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I've seen a number of threads regarding disk quotas and how they do or don't work. I have a practical question about bouncing mail based on quotas. On my system, user mailboxes are on a partition that has user quotas. I'm running Sendmail 8.8.8 and am somewhat familiar with modifying the cf file and have the "bat book". The problem is this: I have a user who has subscribed to several fairly active mailing lists and he has been offline for over a month. Needless to say, his disk quota is now full and the mail queue is filling up with mail to that local account. Mail.local delivery comes back with a "disk quota exceeded" error, as it should, but it isn't fatal so the messages are deferred and just stay in the spool. The question is, how can I best bounce them with a "disk quota exceeded" or "mailbox full" error? Sendmail is just politely queueing them up, and by the time the 5-day queue limit is exceeded, there will be a LOT of bounce message going back to a couple of lists. How do you all handle this situation? Thanks! -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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