From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 01:54:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D9916A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from geminix.org (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CE743D62 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <40026EBC.1000108@geminix.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:04 +0100 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 'FreeBSD Questions' References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Afylp-0002LQ-00; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:05 +0100 Subject: Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:54:09 -0000 Greg Bernard wrote: > Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on > a per user basis using another method than quotas ? > > I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail > so e.mail file size will not go crazy. You could switch to Cyrus IMAP, which is a complete IMAP4/POP3 email storage subsystem with file system independent quotas. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net