Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
$HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir?
Dont know if you can stop that.
Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem,
if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings...
After logging there I get either message
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem,
if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings...
Not if you have quotas on /home
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A. Khattri wrote:
Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem,
if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings...
Not if you have quotas on /home
Yes I do have quotas both on /home and /var. But if user can redirect
its mails from /var (where userquota is 100MB, mail is
On Mon August 29 2005 04:19 pm, A. Khattri wrote:
And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox
format). After logging there I get either message No mail, or
You have new mail. But I do not get any similar message on my
Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate it?
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:38PM +0200, Jarry wrote
If you have a problem with users having access to certain email, then
don't let them access that email at all. That is the only way.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
$HOME/.procmailrc
Neil Bothwick wrote:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
at the top of /etc/procmailrc
OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
Mail is still in maildir format but at least in /var/spool/mail.
Q: How can I prohibit users
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
$HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could
circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home
settings (5GB)...
Dont know if you can stop that.
One more problem: I can
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:42:38 +0200, Jarry wrote:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
at the top of /etc/procmailrc
OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
Mail is still in maildir format but at least in
Le 29 août à 20:42:38 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:
| OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is:
| DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same
| Mail is still in maildir format but at least in /var/spool/mail.
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME (no slash at the end) should give
Jarry wrote:
I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for
users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail.
And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file.
WHY???
It's called the maildir mail storage format. I find it very useful, especially
with
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail.
On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home
(with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files.
Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:28:08 +0200, Jarry wrote:
It's called the maildir mail storage format. I find it very useful,
Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail.
On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home
(with user files) let me define
Neil Bothwick wrote:
You can have maildir and still keep your mail in /var/spool/mail. In this
case, each user has a directory in /var/spool/mail.
Are you using procmail for delivery? If so, you need
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
at the top of /etc/procmailrc
Hm, that
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