From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 14:08:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15422 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15415 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.3/8.7.5) id PAA28960; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:08:40 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199612032208.PAA28960@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Mail Quotas and Flames To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:08:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: mad@adc.com In-Reply-To: <199612031647.IAA28001@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 3, 96 08:47:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I it possible to assign a quota on incoming mail so that a user getting > flammed does not fill up the /var partition? If you already have quotas enabled on the user's home filesystem, symlink each user's mailbox to ~user/.mbox or something like that. You'll need to configure all of your MUAs to look for the mail spool in that directory as well. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com