topic Re: Mailboxes quotas /Sendmail in Operating System - Linux

Mailboxes quotas /Sendmail

Samuel Martinez — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:52:13 GMT

Hello everybody:
Can some one told me how can I put mailboxes quotas in Sendmail over Linux Redhat??
PLZ!!!
My H.D. is dying!!!

Re: Mailboxes quotas /Sendmail

Sergejs Svitnevs — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:16:18 GMT

UNIX has filesystem quotas built in. Just set up quotas on the filesystem(s) that users' mailboxes are on.

check out the following manual:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap20sec156.html

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: Mailboxes quotas /Sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:22:54 GMT

I recommend you regularly monitor the mail.log and system log.

If a user hits quota, you want to know it so you can tell them to clean up. Otherwise mail could be bounced or the sendmail daemon could get unhappy.

SEP

Re: Mailboxes quotas /Sendmail

Peter Edwards_2 — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:31:05 GMT

Thanks guys this helped me out on a question I was going to ask. My sendmail daemon is manically depressed most of the time and I really needed to cap mailbox usage.