quota and /var/mail

[GiL A. Virtucio]

:) just another comment about quotas in emails.. (though its also not for 
sendmail) you might also want to check QMAIL. theres a very nice 
installation guide for FreeBSD in http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/  you'll 
just have to follow the step-by-step installation and in the end you'll have 
a nice web-based interface for maintaining users/virtual domains, with 
spam/virus filtering and other stuff :)


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "patrick" <gibblertron at gmail.com>
To: "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com>
Cc: <questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: quota and /var/mail


If you want to only have one set of quotas, you might consider
switching to a Postfix/Maildir setup where your users' inboxes will be
located in their home folder rather than in /var/mail.

It's a fairly easy switch: install Postfix from
/usr/ports/mail/postfix, and then you just need to configure one line
in your Postfix's main.cf to turn on Maildir support:

http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#maildir

Though, there might be a bit of a learning curve with respect to the
differences between Sendmail and Postfix to convert the rest of your
configuration over. It all depends on how complicated your current
setup is.

Patrick


On 5/23/06, Marwan Sultan <dead_line at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
>   Thank you again for your support, this is the output of mount and fstab
>
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad0s1e             /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1f             /usr            ufs     rw,userquota,groupquota
>     2       2
> /dev/ad0s1g             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> $ mount
> /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
> /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, with quotas, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad0s1g on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
>
> I just want the quota to read the Shell user (home directory) size plus 
> the
> INBOX mails
> which stay in /var/mail/$UserName
>
>   Currently the quota reads the home directory and ignores the $inbox
>   Thak you mike
>
>   Marwan
>
> >At 07:37 PM 21/05/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>  No when I enabled quota I did the configuration on /usr
> >>  shall i enable it on /var to?
> >>  then how to make the sendmail or the shell reads the user quota on his
> >>home directory and
> >>  his /var/mail/$username ?
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >         It all depends on how you have it mounted.  Quotas follow the
> >partition. So if you have /var/mail as its own partition, you need to do 
> >it
> >there. If you have /var/mail as a subdirectory of /var than do it on 
> >/var.
> >
> >What is the contents of /etc/fstab on the box ?
> >
> >>  if webmin can read the home directory quota and add to it the
> >>/var/mail/$userInbox size
> >>  then for sure I can do it some how?
> >
> >I dont use webmin so I am not sure how it calculates things.
> >
> >         ---Mike
> >
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