From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 26 19:34:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784D37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:34:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from afgate.speednet.com.au (afgate.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311AB43E81 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.1]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8R02dfn046630; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:02:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:02:39 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Peter Hollaubek Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/43392: mail.local -B + quota deletes messages if limit reached In-Reply-To: <200209261431.g8QEVNHR099063@www.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20020927095941.B20672-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Peter Hollaubek wrote: > >Description: > In the mail.local manual page it says that the -B option turns off > notification, turning off sending anything to the 512 upd port. But if > mail.local is used with this option and the filesystem storing the > mailboxes uses quotas, and the limit is reached, all the messages are > deleted from the specific mailbox. It was rather surprising when I also discovered this behaviour. > >Fix: > Not using the -B option for mail.local. Or use procmail instead. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message