[EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up

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Author: Nick O'Brien
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To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up
Hi there,

We are using Exim 2.12 on Solaris 2.51. We have had several cases where a
user has misconfigurated his/her .forward file so that any received email
producing hundreds of bounces to that user hence totally filling
/var/mail. We are also, despite our best attempts to prevent this - i.e.
moving oversized mailboxes elsewhere, finding that users are having
mailboxes of ever increasing size.

Unforunately setting max_message_size and mailbox quotas are going to
very political. Is there a way we can configure Exim so that if free
space on /var/mail drops below a certain level, Exim will email our mail
administrators, and will starting queuing mail for local users, instead
of delivering them?

I had a look through the Exim specification and FAQ but could not see any
Exim options which dealt with the size of the mail spool.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Nick



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