Re: Quota on Mail systems
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Pete's mailing list account wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
>
> > This quota works fine and enforces the limit correctly when a user
> > attempts to put any files in that filesystem via the shell - but when a
> > user recieves mail it is placed into their mail file - regardless of their
> > disk quota. So affectively the mail system is quotaless.
>
> Chris,
>
> It's actually a linux kernel bug crawling through your system at
> this very moment. Whatever program puts mail into mailboxes is doing so
> as root and then chown's the mailbox back to the original owner. This
> process doesn't slam into quotas the way that it should, unless you're
> lucky like me and are using procmail as your local delivery agent, in
> which case users experienced bounced mail as soon as they go over
> softquota.
>
> I believe a kernel bug is open regarding this, but I wouldn't hold
> your breath about it.
>
> --Pete
How is it a kernel bug? .. If the program is suid'd to run a root,
shouldn't it assume the root's quota (none) instead of the user's? To me
it sounds like a MTA bug.. QMail works just fine for me..
-Paul
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