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Re: Implementing Mail Quotas without Kernel Support

1999-09-20 02:56:44

   >   I am interested in limiting the mailbox sizes of my users without using
   >   kernel quotas. This is so because the only file that my users own on my
   >   systems is their mailboxes (residing in /var/spool/mail). Since my
   >   sendmail invokes procmail to deliver the emails to my users, I was
   >   wondering if procmail could automatically determined before writing to a
   >   mailbox if it is over a certain size limit? Has someone been to this
   >   area before? 

No but I will be addressing this issue within a couple of months for my own
mail server project, and will be happy to publish the solution I land on.


   >   If this hasn't been done before, I intend to modify the source of
   >   procmail to get this done. Any one interested to join in this exercise
   >   is welcome.

This has to be a silly solution. At the very least take advantage of
procmails configurability and make a separate program to check the
limits which procmail then calls through a procmailrc file.

-- 
Gjermund Sørseth

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