SUMMARY: mail spool used to store files

[Per Foreby]

A few week I asked how to stop students from circumventing the quota
system by mailing files to themselves.

In all the answers I got, there are two major ways to attack the
problem: 

1. Use quotas on the spooldisk or keep the files in the users home-
   directory (by using smail, symlinks or by hacking sendmail).
   The obvious disadvantage: The normal orderly user gets into trouble
   when sendmail exceeds his quota.

2. Don't let a few troblemakers make life complicated for you and the
   rest of the users. Explain the policy, and then delete misused
   mailboxes (They can easily be found with a find scrip run from
   cron). 

Since our problem only concerns a handfull of users, I think the
second method is preferable.

Thanks to the following who have responded to my posting:
rickert at cs.niu.edu, afoiani at NMSU.Edu, adams at ucunix.san.uc.EDU,
rowe at cme.nist.gov, russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz,
scott at castle.edinburgh.ac, bet at orion.mc.duke.edu,
matthews at is-next.umd.edu

This is ofcourse only a *short* summarey, Please email if you would
like the complete collection of replies.

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Per Foreby					Email: perf at efd.lth.se
System manager at EFD, Lund Institute of Technology (Lund University)
Snail: E-huset, LTH, Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden. Phone: +46 46 107492