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From: Gildas Perrot <perrot@francenet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.hp.hpux
Subject: How to solve problems of full mail disk (quotas on mailboxes and/or NO leave mail on server) ?
Date: 29 Nov 1996 11:34:46 +0100
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Hi everybody,
I would like to be able to limit the size of users mailboxes on our HP-UX and
BSD/OS systems which use sendmail 8.7.5 and pop 2.1.4-R3
I tried to put user quotas on /var/mail the BSD/OS systems but this does not
work since sendmail is owned by *root* which writes on /var/mail and so it is
not limited by user quota.
1) Do you know how to set up quotas on user mailbox ?
2) How to interface that with sendmail in order to inform senders that the
recipient mailbox is full ?
3) How to inform the recipient user that his mailbox is full ?
4) Since popper is copying the unix mailbox during POP session, there is
certainly 2 copies of the same mailbox in /var/mail. How to be sure that the
copy is not done in /var/mail ? In fact, if the quota is reached, this copy
can't be done in /var/mail and so, the user will not be able to read it.
5) How to make sure that mail is not left on server even if the POP client has
checked the option "Leave mail on server" ? Is there a way to do that on the
server side and if not, on the client side ?
Thanks in advance for your help. Gildas.
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