No, /var and /var/mail are separate filesystems. It's a Solaris box running sendmail.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ken A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:29 PM > To: Edward Chase > Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper > Subject: Re: qpopper and quotas > > > Are /var/mail and /var/spool/poptemp on the same partition? > > Are you running procmail as LDA ? > It respects quotas. > 'mail' does not. > > Ken > > > Edward Chase wrote: > > I'm having issues with my users blowing their storage > quotas while checking > > their mail. > > > > Consider this... > > > > User is at storage limit. > > User checks mail. > > /var/mail/user gets copied to /var/spool/poptemp/.user.pop > > New mail comes into /var/mail/user > > System cannot combine the 2 files back because it exceeds > storage limit for > > user. > > > > Obviously user is leaving mail behind on server... > > > > I haven't figured out a way around this. > > > > Anyone run into this and figure out a way around it? > > > > Thanks. > > >
