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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.anet-dfw.com!zeus.anet-chi.com!davidb From: davidb@zeus.anet-chi.com () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Quota for /usr and mail Date: 15 Nov 1996 21:45:07 GMT Organization: Anet News Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <56io93$bv1@news1.anet-dfw.com> References: <bf7cc$ec17.ff@news.goldengate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.anet-chi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mury (mury@goldengate.net) 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. I use /var/mail for my mail spool, and have a quota set on my /var partition. Works fine. The only problem is pissed users when they exceed their quota (including the grace period Ive setup). DB