Why would you be silly enough to leave that important of a messages on
somebody else's server?
Edwin wrote:
>
> I agree. The not allow to send mail option is very appealing.
> That's probably the only directly effective measure that won't have side
> effects like 'my very important message of one month ago has been deleted
> and now I've lost thousands of dollars because you guys decided to delete
> my mail !'
>
> 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
> >
