Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:42:21 GMT 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) Message-ID: <3856ff5e.1646051787@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAILPine.BSF.4.10.9912141053390.47571-100000@bellona.asdf.com> References: <lwg0x849vf.fsf@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org> <MAILPine.BSF.4.10.9912141053390.47571-100000@bellona.asdf.com>
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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
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