i got tired of using unix quotas. they have their place, but with qpopper,
i can't trust it. We took off quotas and put mailbox limits on our
incoming MTA. Postfix for us, maybe sendmail for you (dunno if sendmail
has a patch for this).
We give it a default num. of like 2500 blocks for everyone.
And then have a db map for specific users
user1 10000
user2 5000
etc..
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Theresa M Peter wrote:
> One thing that we have discovered is no matter how many times we email
> individuals to inform them that they are using 80% of their soft quota or
> are over quota, they don't fix it. In our email message we are very
> explicit on how to resolve this issue. I believe we are going to be moving
> to not allow those individuals who are over quota to send mail. One other
> thing we are contemplating is forcing Qpopper to dump all mail that is
> older than 3 months when people check their mail.
>
> One thing that I have noticed with UNIX quotas, is that they often get out
> of synch with how much disk space is actually being used by the user. What
> we have done is resynch the file systems quota table weekly at the same
> time we check individual's quota and mail them their warning message. We
> also have tweaked the error messages in Popper so that they are supposed to
> call our helpdesk when they are over quota, while this has helped slightly,
> I still have over 2000 users who are overquota.
>
>
> At 05:08 AM 12/21/00 +1300, Alan Brown wrote:
> >On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Edwin Ringersma wrote:
> >
> > > After suggestion of someone on this list (thanks!)
> > > I've put soft limits to the limit we had on the mail.
> > > The hard limit is over twice that size.
> > > Looks fine. qpopper is able to put the mail back in the spooldir.
> > > I'm now waiting to see what happens if someone is over their grace
> > > period. (or maybe somebody on this list knows?)
> >
> >Once the grace period expires, the problems will resume. I advise
> >setting it to a short period and making sure that the quota daemon is
> >set up to mail people who go overquota.
> >
> >AB
>
>
