Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:10:58 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: toasty@home.dragondata.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/4925: sendmail ignores user quotas Message-ID: <199711092010.PAA00829@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <64552e$1hh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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>The following reply was made to PR bin/4925; it has been noted by GNATS.
>From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: vasim@diaspro.com (Vasim
>Valejev) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG,
>gnats@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/4925:
>sendmail ignores user quotas Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:23:37 -0600 (CST)
> > Hi !
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 toasty@dragondata.com wrote:
> > > >Description:
> > > Users can receive mail well over their hard space limit. I'd like to be
> > > able to stop this from happening. /var/spool/mail is on it's own
> > > partition, so I thought I could apply a quota to prevent users from
> > > getting mailbombed, and also from just saving too much mail on the
> > > server.
> > >
> > > repquota shows the correct amount used, and will even show them going
> > > over the hard limit, but sendmail still dumps more data in their mail
> > > file.
> > >
> > > Is this a bug? Probably not, but it's not really consistant behavior, as
> > > nearly every other service will stop when their limit is reached.
I have fixed this bug (correctly) a hundred times since 2.1-RELEASE. For
whatever insane purposes the FreeBSD core has never ever checked in my fixes.
If you go looking through the archives you will find working and well tested
(as in over 100,000 users on a 100+ systems) patches. Maybe one day someone
out there will see the light and commit the damn thing. No Im not Bitter.
-Crh
--
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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