topic Re: assigning mail quota in Operating System - Linux

assigning mail quota

ritvi — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:46:41 GMT

Hi guys,
How do i assign quota to mail users.
thanx in advance

Re: assigning mail quota

Stuart Browne — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:50:42 GMT

It changes depending on what MTA you are using.

If using sendmail, I don't believe you can explicitly assign a maximum size of a users mailbox.

What you can do however is to create filesystem quota's for users, and these will constrain the mailbox size (as the user owns their own mail-file).

Re: assigning mail quota

Huc_1 — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:10:57 GMT

In sendmail you can limite tha maximum message size by uncommenting and changin the value of

#O MaxMessageSize=1000000

in sendmail.cf and for the rest as Stuart say's you can use user quotas assign to individual user or group.

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: assigning mail quota

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:52:07 GMT

I would suggest storing users mail in their home directory and imposing a quota on the users local disk space.

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