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From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net>
To: Marcel Mason {Personal} <marcel@nunanet.com>
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Subject: Re: limiting mail folder size
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Marcel Mason {Personal} wrote:

> I am looking for a way limit the size of a clients
> mail file to say, 2 Mb total, and reject/bounce 
> mail received after the specified max size is 
> reached.
> 
> Has anyone else contemplated this solution to 
> clients who do not check their mail on a 
> regular basis.

I recommend Cyrus, which is available in the ports collection.  It is an
IMAP/POP3 server which does very little as root, and has worked very
nicely for me.  It does allow quotas to be configured.  One slight
obstacle that you will encounter, should you choose to implement Cyrus, is
that it stores each message as a separate file rather than in the "bezerk"
format, so you will probably need to take your mail service down for a
while and run a script to convert the mailboxes.

http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus.html

--
Mike
  "I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live
  for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
         --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_


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