On 15/07/02 11:06 +0000, The Laser Jet wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:36:11AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> | A kludge would be:
> | ln -sf /var/spool/mail/username /home/username/mailbox
> | But of course, the ideal solution is to move to a mail system that
> understands
> | maildirs. Mailbox quotas is one of the advantages of maildirs.
You need filesystem quotas for Maildir, the MTA cannot enforce quotas
under Maildir.
(It can enforce quotas under mbox, but mbox has a different set of
problems).

> Instead of creating the link that way i created /var/spool/mail as a
> link 
> to a directory in the partition in which the users home directory
> resides.
Gah, you could just have enabled quotas on /var itself.

> So it becomes a temporary solution. By then there has to be a right
> method 
> to do this.
Many right methods.
 
> What do you mean by 'one that understands MAILDIRS'. Does it depend on
> the Delivery Agent sendmail or postfix).
Courier imap. Postfix can deliver directly to maildirs, while you need
to compile procmail specially to support mail delivery.

If all your users have the same mailbox size, and you want to use
wu-imapd (or something that supports mbox), I would suggest playing with
max_message_size and max_mailbox_size under postfix.

Or, if you like a little complexity (with corresponding power), try
cyrus (cyrus-imapd). This has built in sasl and quota support.

Devdas Bhagat


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