Quota Problem

[Jefferson_6]

Hi guys,
im having some problem on my quota. Ive enabled my quota on my users on my mail server.My problem is having to set a hardquota still they can manage to send files. This is configured on my mail server.Supposed to be when they reached theyre quota they cant send emails anymore.Is there a problem on my quota ?

[Ivan Ferreira]

Do you mean file system quota?

The problem is that the mailserver runs as root, so, all files created (users mailboxes) are created using the root account, and then, the owners are changed. (Correct me if i'm wrong please).

Anyway, you can use the repquota -a to verify the quota settings.

[Jefferson_6]

yes im creating the users using root account.i have a quota settings for each account to have 6M.When they approach to 6M, they cant download their mails since they are overquota.Eventhought they exceed theyre hard quota, still they can email them and the mailbox gone to big.yes i did repqutoa -a to check who's overquota

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

so it looks like the procedure using root overrules the quota of the other users.

greetings,

Michael

[Jefferson_6]

What do you mean by that. Coz i have a linux box here and i did the same procedure and my quota works fine. Im concern why my hard quota aint workin