Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Chris
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Pete's mailing list account wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > If a user receives a mail which puts them over softquota, with as a > local delivery agent: > > 1) deliver. User would receive their mail and go over softquota but with > zero grace per

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Pete's mailing list account
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > I don't think I'll hold my breath - but I will switch over to procmail to > my MDA. Can you give me any information on setting procmail up as the > MDA? Or is it fairly straight forward (ie. I should just read the > sendmail man page) I would not recommend t

RE: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
IMHO quotas on /var/spool are a bad idea. They are only effective (as you have discovered) if the user owns the file there - many processes (news, mail, etc.) put things in spool with the ownership other than the user who the file is for. If you do get say all the processes to put the file in spo

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Pete's mailing list account wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > This quota works fine and enforces the limit correctly when a user > > attempts to put any files in that filesystem via the shell - but when a > > user recieves mail it is placed into their mail f

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Pete's mailing list account
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > This quota works fine and enforces the limit correctly when a user > attempts to put any files in that filesystem via the shell - but when a > user recieves mail it is placed into their mail file - regardless of their > disk quota. So affectively the mail syst