Re: [EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> exim currently has facilities to act if the exim spool directory is
> short on space. It does not have a means of dealing with lack of user
> mailspool space in the same way.
>
> I guess something could be added - but you start to wonder if exim is
> getting every feature under the sun rolled in.....


Quite. Why not set up a little cron job that watches the size of
/var/mail? The only alternative is to stick quotas (either OS quotas or
exim-enforced ones) on user mailboxes.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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