RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
:~We don't want to restrict everybody's Email, just a certain group. :~ :~But how will setting up disk quota alert someone sending a huge Email to :~bounce back saying their mailbox is full, stop sending messages? How about reading some documentation? Sugested reading: - Linux introductery

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:03 PM 11/14/99 -0500, Ian Douglas wrote: maybe i'm missing something. there is no reason you can't have a filesystem called, say, /var/mail for the POP mailboxes. that filesystem has the quota applied to it. this should work (i've done it). We don't want to restrict everybody's

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Douglas
How about reading some documentation? Tried that on the server ... came up kinda short. Trust me, I've worked in Tech Support and know all about "RTFM". - Linux introductery stuff on "users", "groups" and "quotas" Did that. But if you read my last post, you'll find I'm a little confused

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
: - Linux introductery stuff on "users", "groups" and "quotas" : :Did that. But if you read my last post, you'll find I'm a little confused :about whether disk quota is really what I want to use -- it doesn't seem to :alert anyone to anything unless I run quotacheck once in a while. I want

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Douglas
: Or just pay for a professional support. : :Kinda defeats the purpose of this mailing list then, don'tcha think? No. Purpose of this mailing list is certainly not giving free support to commercial ISP-s. We're not a commercial ISP. We're a church who is hosting a distance education center

Re: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-14 Thread John Buswell
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: Anyhow, I have a feeling that setting up disk quotas is not what I need to use. One thing you could do, is reconfigure your MTA (ie. sendmail, zmailer etc), so that it delivers mail to /home/bob/.mailbox for example, then simply enforce quotas on the

Re: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:35 PM 11/14/99 +, John Buswell wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Ian Douglas wrote: Anyhow, I have a feeling that setting up disk quotas is not what I need to use. One thing you could do, is reconfigure your MTA (ie. sendmail, zmailer etc), so that it delivers mail to /home/bob/.mailbox