From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 15:10:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A2C106568F for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC95C8FC23 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC641CD18; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:10:40 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <632084.63626.qm@web52210.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080710101959.16935ajt5ozzlu4o@www.san.navalradio.cl> In-Reply-To: <20080710101959.16935ajt5ozzlu4o@www.san.navalradio.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807101710.39469.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Mikhail Goriachev , alydiomc@yahoo.com, derek@computinginnovations.com Subject: Re: quota and sendmail accepts <10k mail size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:42 -0000 On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:19:59 Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > Quoting lyd mc : > > However, my company wants to have 20meg mbox space per user. If the > > User exceeds, he/she should not recieved any mail. > > > > So, I use system quota to prevent sendmail from writing to mbox of a > > Let me suggest slightly different approaches: > > 1.- You could have /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang making the decisions > instead of sendmail or system quota. There you can set your own rules > and sendmail will abide them. This gives you far better control and > you're limited by your own imagination. > > 2.- Implement a mail server with quota capabilities. For instance > cyrus-imap. There you can set quota limits, warning messages to users, > percentages and so on. This is the easiest approach. So there isn't an equivalent to postfix's mailbox_size_limit? -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.