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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:02:39 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Peter Hollaubek <fifteen@inext.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/43392: mail.local -B + quota deletes messages if limit reached
Message-ID:  <20020927095941.B20672-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200209261431.g8QEVNHR099063@www.freebsd.org>

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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.

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/




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