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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Mail Quotas and Flames
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:57:15 +0100 (MET)
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> > I it possible to assign a quota on incoming mail so that a user getting
> > flammed does not fill up the /var partition?
> 
> If you already have quotas enabled on the user's home filesystem, symlink
> each user's mailbox to ~user/.mbox or something like that.  You'll need
> to configure all of your MUAs to look for the mail spool in that directory
> as well.

doesn't work. The usual delivery agent, mail.local, runs with root
permissions and couldn't care lessa bout quotas.

	Luigi