At 10:03 PM 11/14/99 -0500, Ian Douglas wrote:
>> 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).
>
>We don't want to restrict everybody's Email, just a certain group.
fine. make their POP account in a group that is restricted (unless your
mail system uses a specific group ID?)
>But how will setting up disk quota alert someone sending a huge Email to
>bounce back saying their mailbox is full, stop sending messages?
because sendmail should detect the over-quota error writing to the POP
mailbox and give back an appropriate error.
