Y'all,

   Thanks to those of you who thumped me over the head with the Clue Stick
(tm) on the subject of disk quotas for the mail queue last week.  I
thought about it this weekend, and instituted a 50 MB soft limit (12 month
time limit) and a 100 MB hard limit for /var/mail.  This is on a 8 GB
filesystem with 3000 users.  I subjected my test user to 100 MB of email,
and found that once he hit his hard limit, further emails were returned
to sender.  This looks good.  Thanks.

** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
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