Re: quota on /var/spool/mail

[Mário Olímpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> I think your logic has a slight flaw.  It checks to see if the mailbox IS
> CURRENTLY over quota, not if it WILL BE over quota AFTER the mail is
> delivered.
> 
> In other words, mail comes in, the mailbox is checked to see if it is over
> quota. It is not so the mail is added. Then next mail arrives. The mailbox
> is now over quota from the previous mail so no more mail is delivered.
> 
> 

couldn't this be solved with the max msg size define? I think sendmail has
this feature, which prevents big msg to fill out all your disk. Does smail
have such feature? (I don't know smail, yet). 


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