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- From: wbradford@UDCVAX.BITNET
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: MX and Disk Space Quota
- Message-ID: <00966297.F9CACE40.18185@UDCVAX.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 15:38:57 EST
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- We have run into a strange problem that may be linked to MX.
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- We recently noticed that some user accounts on our system have exceeded
- disk quota storage with mainly mail messages.
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- For example:
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- A user is given a permanent disk quota of 5000 blocks and 100 blocks
- overdraft, but, that user has 28000 blocks tied up with mostly .MAI files.
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- After contacting our software support at DEC, it was confirmed that this is
- due to a change in DEC's VMS and VMS MAIL software. As a result, any user,
- who has EXQUOTA or SETPRV privileges, can send a mail message and that mail
- message would go into the target user's mail file whether they had the spare
- disk space or not. DEC is still researching to find out when this change came
- about. We have had JNET running on our system for several years and have never
- seen this problem before. As for MX, we are coming up on our first year of
- running it.
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- DEC's solution: Remove EXQUOTA and SETPRV from the user id that is sending
- the mail message.
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- The problem with DEC's solution is that our MX Mailer account is setup with
- EXQUOTA privileges.
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- Our software configuration is: VMS V5.4-3, JNET V3.5 and MX V3.1
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- My questions:
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- 1) Has any seen or heard of this problem before?
- 2) Can we remove the EXQUOTA privilege from our MX mailer account without
- any problems to MX?
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- Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
-
- William Bradford
- WBRADFOR@UDCVAX.BITNET
-