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- From: linneman@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann)
- Subject: Re: What sendmail do when quota exceeds ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.094209.10000@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
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- Organization: CRI, institute for telecommunication and computerservices.
- References: <1992Nov12.114436.6873@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> <BxM299.E5q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:42:09 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <BxM299.E5q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu writes:
- >a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To) writes:
-
- >>I'd like to know what sendmail will do if user's quota is exceeded.
- >>I've enabled quota on /usr/mail to limit the user mail box's size. I
- >>wonder the mail will be requeued, bounced back, or stored as usual when
- >>the user's quota is exceeded. If sendmail bypasses the quota checking,
- >>how can I queue up the mail (but not delivered to user) in the mail
- >>queue until the user files are cleared up ?
-
- [...]
-
- >At UIUC we don't have the time or interest to monitor quotas on student
- >accounts (8900 on uxa, 5400 on ux4). Our experience has been that if a
- >student is over quota, it's usually because they belong to active mailing
- >lists and haven't been reading their mail. Storing mail in /usr/spool/mqueue
- >for this kind of user waiting for them to clean up their act is a fast way
- >to fill up /usr/spool/mqueue.
-
- You should both check out the mailclean package, that was sent to one
- of the sources newsgroups some time ago. It's a neat little package
- that allows you to control the use of /usr/spool/mail pretty neatly.
- Large mailboxes will be truncated, the truncated part gets moved to
- another directory, which I clean of files older than ten days. This
- gives the owner ten days to clean up their act.
-
- Check archie for a ftp site or mail me for more info.
-
- Happy administrating,
- Stefan.
- --
- Stefan M. Linnemann Internet: Stefan.Linnemann@CRI.LeidenUniv.NL
- System Programmer UNIX CRI, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
- "Twenty push-ups a day and you'll never have to be afflicted with women again."
- -- Daryl van Horne (sp?) [Jack Nicholson] in _the Witches of Eastwick_.
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