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- From: viljanen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: What sendmail do when quota exceeds ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.121722.26823@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 12:17:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.114436.6873@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> <BxM299.E5q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.094209.10000@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
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- linneman@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann) writes:
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- >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.
-
- Never! What happens if a user's mailbox is just under the treshold
- size and the user leaves for a vacation/conference/whatever? Right,
- goodbye new mail... Ten days isn't really very much.
-
- I think valid mail should never ever be removed by the adminstration.
- Moved perhaps, but never removed.
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- >Stefan M. Linnemann Internet: Stefan.Linnemann@CRI.LeidenUniv.NL
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- Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen University of Helsinki "Every real program
- Lea.Viljanen@Helsinki.FI Computing Centre has some input" - H&P
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