Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:29:09 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Delivering mail to user's home directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981004000429.442B-100000@abc.xyz.net> In-Reply-To: <361703E1.894FA14A@dal.net>
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > I know that this thread comes up periodically, and I searched the > archives but didn't find an answer that I liked. I want to deliver mail > directly to each user's home directory in such a way that I could enable > quotas at some time down the road and have the mail delivery agent > respect the quotas. this doesn't sound like a question that is particular to FreeBSD. you may want to post this question to comp.os.unix or a maillist discussing UNIX in general. this list is only for questions that relate to the parts of the operating system that are developed by the FreeBSD development team specifically. is this clear? good luck. > The solutions from the archives: > 1. Symlink /var/mail/username to /home/username/.mail > The problem with this is that sendmail runs as root, so it won't respect > quotas. are you aware that sendmail is developed outside the FreeBSD development group? there are many mail delivery agents you could use, and none of them are developed by the FreeBSD development team. i suggest you send questions relating to problems regarding sendmail to a maillist (majordomo@lists.sendmail.org) or newsgroup (comp.mail.sendmail) specifically related to sendmail. please see www.sendmail.org for further references. is this clear? i hope this helps. > 2. Use a mailer other than sendmail > This solution might work for others, but I want to stick with sendmail > (for now anyway). see above for questions regarding sendmail. you should know not to ask these types of questions here, after all, i learned this from you. > 3. Use procmail with sendmail to deliver the mail > I'd like to avoid dependency on another utility (thus avoiding another > potential security hole). procmail is a package provided to FreeBSD users for their benefit, and questions relating to the use of procmail would should be posted to a maillist specific to procmail. is that clear? > So, I'm open to suggestions here. I'm in a position to do some creative > work, but I'd like something that is secure and portable as much as > possible. i suggest you use your creativity to find the appropriate places to ask your questions. hopefully, i've been clear. > Thanks, > > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** and please, this is not a politically oriented forum. as i browsed the FreeBSD maillists, i noticed many of your questions and answers have a longer signature than the questions and answers put together. once again, this is a forum for the discussion of FreeBSD, ie, the tools and utilities developed by the FreeBSD development team. i am not interested in your thoughts and opinions on Bill Clinton. > "Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, > time and time again, and betrayed their trust. He is no longer an > effective leader. Since he has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put > the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no > purpose in finishing out his term; the only possible solution is for the > president to save some dignity and resign." > > - William Jefferson Clinton, 1974 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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