Re: [exim] Quotas - disallow sending?

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Συντάκτης: Jack Ziegler
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Quotas - disallow sending?
Authenticated or not, there is the issue of efficiently determining
current disk usage of the sender's mailbox. Does anyone know if the
"maildirsize" file is "nfs-safe" for exim? We have multiple machines
delivering mail to the same mailboxes.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Jack

Tony Finch wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jack Ziegler wrote:
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>>One idea that's somewhat appealing is to ignore quotas when delivering, but
>>auto-magically deny those over quota the ability to send messages. Has anyone
>>done this already in exim? Has it worked, i.e. do people comply, or find
>>ways around it? Any ideas about what would be the best approach to
>>implementing it?
>>
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>This sounds like a good idea :-)
>
>It's probably easiest to implement if you require authenticated message
>submission, then you can use $authenticated_id to do a quota lookup in the
>ACL, and reject if necessary.
>
>If you want to allow insecure message submission you can probably turn the
>sender address into the quota lookup key.
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>Tony.
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