From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 01:03:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC6F16A420 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 01:03:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0813B43D46 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 01:03:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4P/8.13.4) with SMTP id k4P13n4G091069 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 21:03:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:03:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6.2.3.4.0.20060521201114.11c166e0@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: quota and /var/mail 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, 25 May 2006 01:03:51 -0000 On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:02:44 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >If you want to only have one set of quotas, you might consider >switching to a Postfix/Maildir setup where your users' inboxes will be >located in their home folder rather than in /var/mail. > >It's a fairly easy switch: install Postfix from >/usr/ports/mail/postfix, and then you just need to configure one line >in your Postfix's main.cf to turn on Maildir support: > >http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#maildir > >Though, there might be a bit of a learning curve with respect to the >differences between Sendmail and Postfix to convert the rest of your >configuration over. It all depends on how complicated your current >setup is. > Maildir is certainly a better way to go. If you want to stick with sendmail, you can also use procmail as your LDA. However, again, it requires a bit of learning as it works differently. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)