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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.eden.com!arlut.utexas.edu!usenet From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Quota for /usr and mail Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:41:50 -0600 Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 20 Message-ID: <328CD58E.11AB@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <bf7cc$ec17.ff@news.goldengate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: seadevil.arlut.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/730) Mury wrote: > > Why doesn't sendmail abide by the quota set for an individual? I have > my users' quotas set for 5MB on the mail server, but sendmail will > keep dumping mail in there until the disk fills. > > Am I missing something? If not, is there a way to add some tool like > procmail to keep sendmail in check? > > Thanks for any help. > > Mury > GoldenGate IS > mury@goldengate.net I don't know...but that is the trick I use to store more than my quota on one of my university accounts ;) Ian Fink fink@arlut.utexas.edu