At 03:04 PM 9/26/2005, Edward Chase wrote:
I'm having issues with my users blowing their storage quotas while checking
their mail.
Consider this...
User is at storage limit.
User checks mail.
/var/mail/user gets copied to /var/spool/poptemp/.user.pop
New mail comes into /var/mail/user
System cannot combine the 2 files back because it exceeds storage limit for
user.
Obviously user is leaving mail behind on server...
I haven't figured out a way around this.
Anyone run into this and figure out a way around it?
The only solutions I've seen involve putting the temp storage on a
separate machine.
The real answer, IMO, and one I haven't chased yet is to have the
SMTP server (sendmail, etc.) handle mailbox sizing issues, and bounce
messages when people are over quota. It should be possible to
integrate such without that much effort, but the sendmail/procmail
universe seems to lack such (I'm certainly open to pointers if folks
have solutions to this).
Ultimately, I really don't want to use the file system quota
mechanism to deal with limiting users' mailbox sizes. Perhaps quotas
work for you (other than the obvious qpopper question you asked
about) but they seem like the wrong tool for the job.
