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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:57:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net>
To:        Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail - low on space
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128115449.3695T-100000@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34CEFC16.33590565@cablenet.net>

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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Damian Hamill wrote:

> The problem is that you can't plan for a user receiving a 28MB email, or
> maybe 10 users getting a 28MB email!! 
> 
> Having the mail spool on the /var partition was probably OK in the days
> of small text only emails but attachments make it impossible to plan any
> kind of mail queue disk usage.  The safest thing is to put it on a
> partition with the largest amount of free disk space.

The problem is that you can plan for this.  The game is implementing
quotas in the areas that the users can touch and using software that heeds
these quotas.

--
Mike
  "I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live
  for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
         --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_





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