Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:10:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> To: Andrew <andrew@key.net.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quotas on mail directories Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970430170702.16641E-100000@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970430235240.17225A-100000@house.key.net.au>
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On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Andrew wrote:
> > I can't seem to make sendmail pay attention to quotas on the /var
> > filesystem. I've set up 1M soft and 10M hard limits, yet mail to an
> > account that is over the hard limit still gets delivered. I know sendmail
> > is supposed to reject the message if the entire filesystem is too full,
> > but how do you make it do the same if the quota is exceeded?
>
> sendmail delivers its mail as root so the quota dosnt get noticed. Change
> your local mailer to procmail or something - that works...
I changed sendmail.cf to use procmail, e.g.
Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMrmn, S=10, R=20/40,
A=mail -d $u
This now checks the quota if the mail is sent from inside the machine, but
still writes if the smtp connection comes from the outside world. Is
there something else I need to do?
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