Well, one great way is to go to qmail and use Maildirs. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to put a collection of email messages end-to-end in a file. Maildirs stores each message in a separate file. No need to make temp copies. Also, Maildirs stores the email in the user's home directory. To top it off, qmail is the most secure MTA around.
Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian box as a pop3 server for some users at the Dept. > The server has one scsi disk, with three main partitions (/ /home /other). > This is a poor design, but was done some years ago, when I was just > beginning with Linux. > I have set quota for users in / and /home so I can prevent the > spool area to hog all disk space with tons of messages with megs of > attach. The problem is that when some user with a little more than the > half of its quota tries to get e-mail via pop3, he/she gets a quota > exceeded message, because the qpopper do a temporary copy of the mail file > after it changes to the user/group of the user requesting the pop. > My questions are: > 1. Is this the only behavior or can I change this through some > config file? > 2. What you suggest to workaround this problem? > 3. Is there some other pop server that behaves different? > > []s, > Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
