Freebsd quota & sendmail

[Derek Ragona]

At 12:29 PM 2/27/2008, Ofloo wrote:

>I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for sendmail, and it
>does concern freebsd as well.
>
>My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each user and
>this user creates a cronjob, that doesn't forward all data to /dev/null, and
>keeps on generating mail, ..
>
>Well after a while the mail file reaches it's quota and sendmail isn't
>allowed to write to that file anymore, so it will start and fill the mailq,
>..
>
>The point is after a while the whole system will just crash what can I do
>about it, sorry for rambling.

Why are you setting these quotas on /var/mail.  These days with disk so 
cheap, why bother?  If you are trying to better control sendmail, you 
should exercise the control there.  You can adjust sendmail for maximum 
message size, number of messages, etc.  Or if SPAM is the issue use 
mailscanner to control how spam is handled.

Adding disk quotas outside of sendmail as you found is not a good approach 
as it will bring the system down.

         -Derek

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