Hi there, I'm hoping that someone can help me out with issues that I'm having here.
Our user mailboxes are sitting in a /var/mail filesystem. Users have a hard quota of 10MB. When a user checks their email, qpopper appears to move /var/mail/user to /var/spool/poptemp/.user.pop This frees up their available storage in /var/mail. Mail that has been queued up for them in /var/spool/mqueue can now be put into /var/mail/user The problem lies in fact that many of our users access their mail using a web interface that does not download the messages to the local machine. When the user is done looking at their email, qpopper attempts to move /var/spool/poptemp/.user.pop back to /var/mail/user. This file in the mean time has had mail added to it and now the user ends up with quota problems. Also they end up with 10MB at /var/spool/poptemp/.user.pop and whatever back at /var/mail/user I'm guessing that if /var was the only filesystem in play here this might help, however I didn't have the disk space for that. (Remember that /var/mail is it's own filesystem.) I've tried moving poptemp to /var/mail/poptemp, but that made things worse. The 10MB /var/mail quota did not allow a 10MB file to be moved from /var/mail/user to /var/mail/poptemp/.user.pop For at least a brief period of time both files exist and that 20MB can't be held in their 10MB quota. I've been dealing with this by temporarily increasing individuals quotas and mailbox cleanup. Any suggestions? I hope this isn't "clear as mud."
