From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 09:50:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA10102 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from super-g.inch.com (spork@super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10096 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA27161; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:47:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:47:50 -0600 (CST) From: "S(pork)" X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Luigi Rizzo cc: Softweyr LLC , questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mad@adc.com Subject: Re: Mail Quotas and Flames In-Reply-To: <199612040857.JAA11330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From what I understand, procmail in place of mail.local solves the problem nicely (it runs as the user being delivered to) and even makes a nice little "sorry this chump has a full mailbox" message a-la AOL... Charles On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > 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 >