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Re: AIX Mail stored in AFS space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Lindsey)
Tue Feb 13 11:37:33 2001

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From: Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "Touretsky, Gregory" <gregory.touretsky@intel.com>
Cc: "'R McGee'" <mcgee@us.ibm.com>, info-afs@transarc.com
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In-Reply-To: <CB46341FECBDD111832600A0C926615A03DBD992@hasmsx31.iil.intel.com>; from gregory.touretsky@intel.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:53:13AM -0800

> Well, we are running our Unix mail server with mailboxes in user's home
> directories. 
> We had to compile sendmail with some fixes and use also reauth module that
> klogs every week or so
> Mailboxes are located under ~/.Mail/INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail
> It works fine.

Hi Gregory,

   How do you deal with the quota issue?  It's been our experience that
   files will be reset to a zero length if they're appended to and a user
   is over quota, which doesn't bode well for mailboxes.

Chris

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