> I think your logic has a slight flaw. It checks to see if the mailbox IS
> CURRENTLY over quota, not if it WILL BE over quota AFTER the mail is
> delivered.
>
> In other words, mail comes in, the mailbox is checked to see if it is over
> quota. It is not so the mail is added. Then next mail arrives. The mailbox
> is now over quota from the previous mail so no more mail is delivered.
But how would you then explain this:
sol:forrest[~]>ll /var/spool/mail/forrest /var/spool/mail/testuser
-rw------- 1 forrest mail 55651 Feb 10 07:46 /var/spool/mail/forrest
-rw-rw---- 1 forrest mail 0 Feb 10 08:07 /var/spool/mail/testuser
sol:forrest[~]>quota
Disk quotas for user forrest (uid 3217):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/sda8 56 1000 2000 2 0 0
sol:forrest[~]>cat linux-2.2.1.tar.gz > /var/spool/mail/testuser
/var/spool/mail: warning, user disk quota exceeded
/var/spool/mail: write failed, user disk quota exceeded too long.
/var/spool/mail: write failed, user disk quota exceeded too long.
cat: write error: Disc quota exceeded
sol:forrest[~]>ll /var/spool/mail/forrest /var/spool/mail/testuser
-rw------- 1 forrest mail 55651 Feb 10 07:46 /var/spool/mail/forrest
-rw-rw---- 1 forrest mail 962560 Feb 10 08:11 /var/spool/mail/testuser
sol:forrest[~]>quota
Disk quotas for user forrest (uid 3217):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/sda8 1001* 1000 2000 none 2 0 0
Juergen Nagler
