SUMMARY: Quotas and sendmail

From: Sergio Edo. Miranda (sem@cec.uchile.cl)
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999 - 16:22:11 CDT


Original question:
      Hi, i established quotas in /var/mail for my users.
      quota -v works fine, when the user past the hard limit
      appears EXPIRED,
      and the user cant create a new file in the filesystem.
      Everything seems to be fine, except the user is still
      receiving
      e-mails, despite his quota has expired
      Did i miss something?
 
The answer:
  Sendmail is running as root when it updates the mailbox, therefore
it will override quotas.

Solution:
  Try to configure procmail or work with the mail.local program. I havent
tried any of them yet
  
 
Thanks to:
Chad Price <cprice@molbio.unmc.edu>
Paul R. Hybert <prh@ece.iit.edu>
Juan Manuel Del Rio <jdelrio@uniandes.edu.co>
Bill Hebert <bhebert@nuc.berkeley.edu>
Duane M. Gran <ragnar@SolarisCentral.org>
Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>
Sarantis Papanagnou <spap@forthnet.gr>
Steve Elliott <se@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Mike DeMarco <mikejd@bnpcn.com>
Thomas Carter <tcarter@memc.com>

Sergio Edo. Miranda
Grupo de Ingenieria - CEC
Universidad de Chile



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