mail and disk quotas

tom at uwai.UUCP tom at uwai.UUCP
Tue Dec 4 15:47:46 AEST 1984


> 	The mail spool is a particular nuisance as other users can
> 	force someone over quota by blasting mail at them.
> 	I haven't had it happen here but I would assume that
> 	mail starts falling off the floor.

How does this happen?  Don't tell me you put quotas on /usr!!!  People's
stuff queued up in /usr/spool/* shouldn't affect their disk quotas
as long as  you haven't gone and done this questionable thing.

tom
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Tom Christiansen
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