From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 18:42:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD6D152C1 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA88754; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:42:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA16139; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: x@asdf.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After RTFM and newsgroups, still 2 questions about quotas (and mail) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:42:21 GMT Message-ID: <3856ff5e.1646051787@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Dec 1999 11:03:58 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hello > >As the subject says, I have RTFM and searched newsgroups and have two >questions about quotas on a FreeBSD 3.3 system: > >1. I know the default mail.local doesn't respect quotas because it runs >I know you can use procmail or qmail to do this, but I have also heard >that procmail is not to "good" to use for a FreeBSD system because it procmail works quite well actually. If you are worried about really big messages, limit the mail size of incoming messages to something reasonable like 20MB. >2. Is there a way to send an email to users to let them know they are over Dont know of anything built in, but I am sure there scripts out there. Its sort of a tricky issue in that if the user is over their quota, you wont be able to easily mail them, as new mail is rejected. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message