From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 18:41:09 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 5CE2D106566B for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:41:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAE78FC13 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay11.apple.com (relay11.apple.com [17.128.113.48]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6224227DCA5; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay11.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay11.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id AFDB82807D; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:03 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807130-a92b4bb00000575e-94-47c5aebf6fb6 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) by relay11.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 99E3A28087; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5335D2B8-C1E0-45C8-A488-9F25342DA3FC@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Ofloo In-Reply-To: <15719728.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:03 -0800 References: <15719728.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd quota & sendmail 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: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:41:09 -0000 On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Ofloo wrote: > I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for > sendmail, and it > does concern freebsd as well. Well, there's comp.mail.sendmail on Usenet. > My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each > user and > this user creates a cronjob, that doesn't forward all data to /dev/ > null, and > keeps on generating mail, .. > > Well after a while the mail file reaches it's quota and sendmail isn't > allowed to write to that file anymore, so it will start and fill the > mailq, > .. What you've described seems to be normal system operation. Solutions include people fixing their cron jobs, having people actually read and delete their emails before they fill their allocated quota, or spending more admin cycles cleaning up when you notice someone getting to this problem condition. I suppose you could also get more disk space for /var... -- -Chuck