:>> - Linux introductery stuff on "users", "groups" and "quotas"
:>
:>Did that. But if you read my last post, you'll find I'm a little confused
:>about whether disk quota is really what I want to use -- it doesn't seem to
:>alert anyone to anything unless I run quotacheck once in a while. I want
:>something that's automated.
Yes, you definitely want quotas.
:>
:>> - sendmail related stuff
:>
:>Didn't see anything on sendmail.org regarding limiting mailbox size.
Nay. That is because sendmail has nothing to do with it .-)
However, it could interest you how to limit a size of allowed e-mails
or so...
:>> - procmail documentation
:>
:>We don't use procmail -- how would their documentation help?
Start using it. I am sure you will love it. .-)
Procmail can do just about anything with e-mail.
:>> - something on security of linux-system in a network
:>
:>Can you recommend anything?
You could start with "Essencial system administration" for instance. I am
sure there are newer books written specifically for linux out there, too.
:>> Or just pay for a professional support.
:>
:>Kinda defeats the purpose of this mailing list then, don'tcha think?
No. Purpose of this mailing list is certainly not giving free support to
commercial ISP-s.
:>
:>> It seams to me that you are planning a big-time mail server
:>
:>Nope. Right now there are about 15 users who are quite happy with the way
:>things are running. However, the church is setting up a distance education
:>center which is going to share the server to give the students their own
:>Email accounts. We just want to limit how much Email the students can get.
Well, If you are into education, then - just do it. If anything goes wrong
you will probably fix it before beeing lynched. Besides, lynching
sys-admins is ilegal anyway.
Quotas will do the trick for you, and you can set the quota for each user
to whatever you want. The quotas are per partition, so make sure you set
some sane limits for every (relevant) partition. Basically, your users
should not keep their stuff outside their home-dirs, but their files will
end-up in /tmp, and in /var/spool/* too, so make sure you give them
enough space there, too.
cu
Denis
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