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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!southwind.net!jade!stehman From: stehman@jade.southwind.net (Jeff Stehman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.hp.hpux Subject: Re: How to solve problems of full mail disk (quotas on mailboxes and/or NO leave mail on server) ? Date: 30 Nov 1996 19:28:59 GMT Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57q1tr$h67@opal.southwind.net> References: <rdwwv56vg9.fsf@epiphore.francenet.fr> <57pprc$o4c@news1.anet-dfw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jade.southwind.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5389 comp.sys.hp.hpux:50610 davidb@zeus.anet-chi.com wrote: : Gildas Perrot (perrot@francenet.fr) wrote: : : 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. : The quota has nothing to do with root owning sendmail. However, if a user has : a hard limit (or has run out of their grace period) on their quota, then : the mail program will not be able to write to /var/mail/user No, the BSD/OS delivery agent will ignore a hard quota on /var/mail. -- Jeff Stehman Senior Systems Administrator stehman@southwind.net SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. voice: (316)263-7963 Wichita, KS URL for Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce: http://www.southwind.net/ict/