From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 4:41:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercenary.vntech.com (mercenary.vntech.com [206.147.237.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033B914E47 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) Received: from localhost (pezzy@localhost) by mercenary.vntech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18005; Thu, 27 May 1999 16:28:13 GMT (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mercenary.vntech.com: pezzy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:28:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Patrick Walentiny To: robert@mail.formosawatch.com.tw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Quota In-Reply-To: <37736401.B4AF2BA7@mail.formosawatch.com.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The reason it exceeds the mail limit is because "Sendmail" is a process run by root (which obviously has no quota). To limit the size of a mail box you have to add a line in the sendmail.cf that says limit mail box size, I would tell you how to do it, but I left my sendmail book at home (Doh!) just look it up on the sendmail webpage, or if you have the O'Reilly book you are in good shape. Patrick. On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 robert@mail.formosawatch.com.tw wrote: > Dear Sir, > > After I setup the userquota on my /var filesystem, I found that even the > quota exceed the hard limit the mail still come in and my mailbox in the > /var become lager and lager. How can I do to let the mail quota be the > same as the filesystem quota. > > Best regards, > stone@mail.kway.com.tw > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message