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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Limit mail box size in BSDI
Date: 13 Nov 1995 09:49:47 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Trien <trien@bien.mke.com> wrote:
>Dear BSDI gurus:

Well, that's not me :), but:

>1) How do you limit the amount of size (say 2M) of a user mailbox.

Unless there's something easier i'm overlooking, you should at least
be able to assign user quotas to the /var partition (or even make
/var/mail a separate partition).

(Perhaps you could also hack the /usr/libexec/mail.local program.)
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]