Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Our user e-mail INBOXes are sitting in /var/mail/[user]. Does anyone know of a way for me to institute per-user quota on their INBOXes? See our problem is that while I can apply user-quotas on /home/[user], that doesn't take into account what's on /var/mail/[use

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-07 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 12:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Depending on how your mail system is set up, I'd recommend doing this > in your mail server software. For example, the better IMAP servers > such as Cyrus do this and give you much finer control than the > sledgehammer approach of limi

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:51 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Our user e-mail INBOXes are sitting in /var/mail/[user]. Does > anyone know of a way for me to institute per-user quota on their > INBOXes? See our problem is that while I can apply user-quotas on > /home/[user], that doesn't take

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-07 Thread Mike Burger
> > Our user e-mail INBOXes are sitting in /var/mail/[user]. Does > anyone know of a way for me to institute per-user quota on their > INBOXes? See our problem is that while I can apply user-quotas on > /home/[user], that doesn't take into account what's on /var/mail/[user] > ... and some us

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-06 Thread g
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > So, I want to limit > the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. > > Possible? never really thought about it, but have you considered using a link? create a file in users home directory, as root; touch /home/ashley/mspool chown ashley:mail mspool ln

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-06 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >> So, I want to limit the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. >> >>Possible? > > Why not just put the mail in their home directories to keep it simple? > You can use a symlink if that makes it easier. Although, if you're us

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-06 Thread g
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > So, I want to limit > the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. > > Possible? never really thought about it, but have you considered using a link? create a file in users home directory, as root; touch /home/ashley/mspool chown ashley:mail mspool ln

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

2009-03-06 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > So, I want to limit the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. > >Possible? Why not just put the mail in their home directories to keep it simple? You can use a symlink if that makes it easier. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@re