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Re: Mail : quota or not quota ? and how to ?



also sprach Robert Brockway <rbrockway@opentrend.net> [2005.02.17.1632 +0100]:
> If a disk fills mail will tmpfail so a user don't lose mail if
> another user fills the disk, as long as it is cleaned in
> a reasonable amount of time.  OTOH, a full disk will precent the
> sending of mail.  Many MUAs (mail user agents) only point this out
> after you've tried to send.

A quota causes the write to fail; mails will bounce, at least when
procmail is being used.

> >2. How to implement quota the best way (and the easy way on Debian) ?
> 
> The xfs filesystem is often considered to have a superior quota system to 
> other filesystems on Linux.

How so?

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