quota on /var/spool/mail

[forrest@sol.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de (Juergen Nagler)]

After some users filled /dev/sda8 which is mounted as /var/spool/mail I
introduced quotas. This worked fine up to two weeks ago because a user
received a mail greater than his hardlimit. How could this happen?

We're using smail 3.2.0.101-4.5 out of the hamm distribution.

I observed the process of incoming mails. First the incoming mail is
spooled to /var/spool/smail/input and then appended to
/var/spool/mail/username, whether or not this exceeds the hardlimit of
quota. Every next mail for this user is blocked because of the quota
but this one was enough to fill /var/spool/mail.

Any suggestions?


TIA, Juergen Nagler

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Juergen.Nagler@student.uni-ulm.de
students residence server admin
Heilmeyersteige, Ulm, Germany