Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 21:16:49 -0000 From: "Nielsen" <nielsen@memberwebs.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "ODHIAMBO Washington" <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Expiring old mail in Maildir/ Message-ID: <20030524212008.877273FF33A@mail.npubs.com> Resent-Message-ID: <none> References: <20030523163755.GB12569@ns2.wananchi.com><63294.216.250.215.27.1053708441.squirrel@webmail.sanyutel.com><20030524071359.GG12569@ns2.wananchi.com> <3ECF9A17.5010807@mac.com>
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postfix can provide user quotas. Not everyone is using LDA's antiquated enough to require a uid on the system for every account. Cheers Nate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: "ODHIAMBO Washington" <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 10:13 Subject: Re: Expiring old mail in Maildir/ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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