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Date:      Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:09:31 -0600
From:      "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To:        "Bill Sandiford" <sysop@interlinks.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: help with quotas and sendmail and procmail
Message-ID:  <014d01bf2892$d66a7320$8061fea9@megared.net.mx>
References:  <001f01bf288c$ec736060$03a06bcf@interlinks.net>

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Hi,

    This page will tell you how to do it:

http://freebsd.peon.net/cgi-bin/tutorials.html.cgi?file=8

Have Fun...
Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Sandiford <sysop@interlinks.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 1:27 PM
Subject: help with quotas and sendmail and procmail


> Help :
>
> I am trying to install quotas on my FreeBSD mail server so that my users
> can't have a mail file greater then 5 megs.  I have set up quotas on my
> system and I am postive that they are working on the /var drive.  My
problem
> is that since mail processing daemons (etc) are run by priveledged users,
> they will write to the mail file and exceed the quota.  I read in one of
the
> faqs on sendmail.org that if i use procmail i should be ok because
procmail
> observers quotas.  It tells me to look at the Mlocal line in my
sendmail.cf
> which looks like this :
>
> Mlocal,         P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30,
> R=20/40
>                     T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>                     A=mail -d $u
>
> Obviously, there is no procmail in there so i have changed the line to
this
> :
>
> Mlocal,         P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30,
> R=20/40
>                     T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>                     A=/usr/local/bin/procmail -d $u
>
> But it still doesn't work, the quotas still get exceeded.  I'll be the
first
> to admit that I am no genius when it comes to sendmail or procmail...in
> fact, i hadn't even heard of procmail until today.  If anyone knows what
can
> be done to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
>
>
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