Expiring old mail in Maildir/

[Chuck Swiger]

ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:
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> I meant mail quota - on the Maildir/ There is nothing else these users
> can put on the server. They do not have shell access, and also no ftp
> access. And I do MTA-imposed quota on the Maildir/
> Have you heard of Exim (www.exim.org) ? It does impose quotas on the
> Maildir. I do it here ;-)

I've heard of Exim, although I have not used it.  I am more familiar 
with mail systems like Cyrus, as well as it's predecessor, the Andrew 
Message System, and Courier.  I remember MMDF, which CMU was using way 
back when, and I'd even worked on a SMTP-to-X.400 gateway product back 
in the early 90's.

For choice, I'd spend my time on this list helping people rather than 
debating terminology, but that's only a preference.  If you want to say 
that Exim has "MTA-imposed quota", fine. (*)

In the future, please try to mention important details instead of 
expecting people to guess that you weren't using FreeBSD's default MTA.

-- 
-Chuck

(*): I find the distinction between the various components of a mail 
system-- the "MTA", "LDA", "MUA", and related software like a "POP3" or 
"IMAP" server-- to be well-defined and meaningful.  Exim handles 
per-user quotas for mailboxes.  However, the part of Exim which does 
SMTP-- the MTA-- doesn't perform local delivery, does it?