----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Obantec Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:16 AM Subject: Re: quota's
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Obantec Support wrote: > > > how do i use a configuration file and restart (if needed) qpopper to use the > > config file. i have space on the drive to add a new directory say > > /users/tmp/mail and have popper use this for the .pop files. > > If you're running qpopper from inetd then it will pick this up > immediately, however you must have that temp directory on a separate > _filesystem_ or the users will hit the same quota limit. > > It is best to set the user's quota hard limit at least twice the soft > limit, with a very short grace period (hours or minutes if possible) - > to ensure they don't go much overquota on normal mail flow. > > -- > If a person, or organisation, starts to play on your fears > it may be that person or organisation that you should fear. > > > > -- Hi i ran popper from the command line. i should look into using inted. just found the qpopper.config file in the src directory samples. i think for now I'll use the quota option as that is quick and easy. later i will need to know how to safely change to using the config file and inted. Mark
