On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Juergen Nagler wrote:
> > 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
>
The owner is forrest, not testuser....
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