From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 08:30:39 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 A5E8016A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 688E543D2F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu To: Greg Bernard References: From: Dan Pelleg Date: 12 Jan 2004 11:29:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' 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 16:30:39 -0000 Greg Bernard writes: > 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. > > > Thanks for your advices... > I've never tried this, but it should work: set up a vn(4) disk of the right size, and arrange for the user's spool to be on its mountpoint. See vnconfig(8) for setup examples. -- Dan Pelleg