Re: mail quotas

[William Mulvihill <will.mulvihill@dxrgroup.com>]

Depending on how your users download mail, limiting the mailbox in 
sendmail might not get you what you want.  For example, if they 
download their mail through IMAP and create folders on your server, 
those folders are usually (depending on distro and mail client and 
various other things) stored in the user's home directory.  So you 
could have a user that had a very small INBOX (var/mail/username) but 
their home directory (/home/username) has a bunch of folders with email 
that may have large attachments, etc.

There probably is a way to get sendmail to limit the incoming mail, I 
don't know it offhand.  But it would also be good to implement hard 
and/or soft quotas on home directories in case the users make a bunch 
of folders to store mail in on your server.

-Will Mulvihill
On 2002.06.27 08:43 Casey Boone wrote:
> 
> 
> running sendmail and using the /var/mail/username mailbox format
> 
> anyway to limit the size of someone's mailbox?  ive been looking
> through the
> sendmail.cf file by hand, but i havent found it yet :\
> 
> Casey
> 
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