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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:03:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      x@asdf.com
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   After RTFM and newsgroups, still 2 questions about quotas (and mail)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912141053390.47571-100000@bellona.asdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <lwg0x849vf.fsf@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>

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Hello

As the subject says, I have RTFM and searched newsgroups and have two
questions about quotas on a FreeBSD 3.3 system:

1. I know the default mail.local doesn't respect quotas because it runs
suid. I have seen people mention something about a "fix" for that coming
out or already out but have not seen it. Is there a way to get mail.local
to respect user quotas? I have already hacked it to deliver to user's home
directories.

I know you can use procmail or qmail to do this, but I have also heard
that procmail is not to "good" to use for a FreeBSD system because it
reads messages into memory and big messages can (maybe) crash a system (if
you don't have an size limit on incoming email that is)? At least, that
had apparently happened to an older system with procmail we had here. And
I haven't had a chance to mess with qmail yet ;-)

2. Is there a way to send an email to users to let them know they are over
(or close to over) their quota? I am going to be migrating some users from
an old BSDI 2.0 machine over to this new FreeBSD box, and the quota system
on the BSDI box would send emails out when someone was over. I know I can
just write some sort of script that would run repquota and grep for those
over, but wondered if there was a built in function for that.

Thanks,

-Dan




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