From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 28 08:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26535 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parsons.rh.rit.edu (root@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu [129.21.117.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA26528 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@harborcom.net) Received: from mfisher by parsons.rh.rit.edu with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xxano-0001Q3-00; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:57:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:57:27 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher X-Sender: mfisher@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu To: Damian Hamill cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: <34CEFC16.33590565@cablenet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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_