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Re: Quota on /var/spool/mail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Sun Oct 20 10:55:24 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:07:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Anthony Kueh wrote:
> Does anyone have a clue as to how I can implement mail quota's on the
> /var/spool/mail directory? The problem here is that since sendmail is UID
> root, it simply by-passes all quota checks. I'd like to setup mailquota so
> that the user's inbox is limited to let's say 1 meg.
>
> Please e-mail if possible. Thanks!
Are you sure about this? ie, have you verified its behaviour? I'm sure
sendmail switched euid to that of the user _before_ performing writes.
This stops quota being circumvented. My setup has a quota on /var/ and
I've definitely seen mail to me bounce once I have exceeded my soft quota
too long.
Chris.
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