At 09:31 2002-03-21 +0800, Daniel Tan wrote:
does anyone know where or how to get some tips on configuring procmail
to work with sendmail on restricting user's mailbox space? i think i am very
Try using the searchable list archives:
<http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/>
Search for of all things, "quota". People have come up with some procmail
recipe based things to do what you want to do, but you're losing out on the
quota capabilities built into the FS (which procmail will otherwise pay
attention to).
One could wonder why you don't just assign a quota to users and tell them
that it is a combined homedir and mail spool limit -- someone can eat up
their quota with web stuff or _saved_ email, or they can receive large
emails and store them. Whatever they want - they're just limited to 'X'
space total.
If you want email as a separate quota, and to do it the way it should be
done, you should consider backing up your filesystem (uh, you do have
backup facilities, right?) and repartition your HD so that you can
re-create /var/mail (not var/spool/mail ?) to have its own partition that
you can mount. As long as you mount all the new partitions in the proper
places before you restore, there should be nothing tricky with the restore
- things will head to where they belong.
Totally OT for the procmail list, so please don't follow up on this
here: where possible, I usually leave ample UNPARTITIONED space on drives
when setting up a new system, since it affords greater flexibility during
the configuration stages. /tmp and swap are both relegated to a separate
drive from /usr and /home whenever I'm deadling with multiple drives (which
I nearly always am).
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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