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Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sat May 24 09:13:11 PDT 2003


ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:
> * ziggy at one2net.co.ug <ziggy at one2net.co.ug> [20030523 19:47]: wrote:
>>if you are worried about space wouldnt something like setquota help ???
>>so that the user knows how much space they can actually use up, also makes
>>life easier for you the administrator.
> 
> These users don't have shell accounts, and I do not want to use system
> quotas. I use MTA-implemented quota.

MTA's generally don't implement user quotas.  In fact, a MTA like 
sendmail doesn't even perform local delivery: the LDA, such as procmail 
or mail.local does.  Procmail or mail.local doesn't implement quotas 
either: they depend on the system to provide that functionality.

-Chuck



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