At 05:35 PM 11/14/99 +0000, John Buswell wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Ian Douglas wrote:
>
>> Anyhow, I have a feeling that setting up disk quotas is not what I need to
>> use.
>
>One thing you could do, is reconfigure your MTA (ie. sendmail, zmailer
>etc), so that it delivers mail to /home/bob/.mailbox for example, then
>simply enforce quotas on the users homedir which is quite easy to do. This
>method is used a lot by ISPs. You may have to do a little more if you are
>using a centralized NFS server to store users home directories.
maybe i'm missing something. there is no reason you can't have a
filesystem called, say, /var/mail for the POP mailboxes. that filesystem
has the quota applied to it. this should work (i've done it).
