Hi,
   I use sendmail 8.12.5 with procmail 3.22 on Solaris 8.  When I hit
the hard limit, the mail was returned to me (the sender) with the
explicit message "quota exceeded".

** 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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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Eric Luyten wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:31:57 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Eric Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Subscribers of Qpopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: filesystem quotas
>
> [Jeff E.]
> > 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.
>
> Depends.
> What are your Mail Transfer Agent and local delivery agent ?
>
> I do not consider a 'Service Unavailable' error message to sender
> informative.
>
> There does not appear to be a suitable code (/usr/include/sysexits.h)
> that I can make procmail return to sendmail (our environment). Too bad.
>
>
> Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB.
>

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