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Date:      Sat, 24 May 2003 12:13:11 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        ODHIAMBO Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Expiring old mail in Maildir/
Message-ID:  <3ECF9A17.5010807@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030524071359.GG12569@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20030523163755.GB12569@ns2.wananchi.com> <63294.216.250.215.27.1053708441.squirrel@webmail.sanyutel.com> <20030524071359.GG12569@ns2.wananchi.com>

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ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:
> * ziggy@one2net.co.ug <ziggy@one2net.co.ug> [20030523 19:47]: wrote:
>>if you are worried about space wouldnt something like setquota help ???
>>so that the user knows how much space they can actually use up, also makes
>>life easier for you the administrator.
> 
> These users don't have shell accounts, and I do not want to use system
> quotas. I use MTA-implemented quota.

MTA's generally don't implement user quotas.  In fact, a MTA like 
sendmail doesn't even perform local delivery: the LDA, such as procmail 
or mail.local does.  Procmail or mail.local doesn't implement quotas 
either: they depend on the system to provide that functionality.

-Chuck



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