>>>>> "Kapil" == Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kapil> Hi, consider the situation. There is a disk quota for a
Kapil> user of 100MB. the user has used 99MB of the quota. Now he
Kapil> receives a mail of 2MB size, which for obvious reasons
Kapil> bounces with the error message that the mailbox is full.
Kapil> Now I want to know which of the following assumptions is
Kapil> true, 1. Is sendmail checking whether the new mail can fit
Kapil> in ??
Kapil> 2. Sendmail receives the complete mail, but quotaon( or
Kapil> related program) does not allow the sendmail to deliver the
Kapil> mail in users mailbox and so the sendmail responds back
Kapil> with error message that the user mailbox is full.
Kapil> 3. Sendmail receives the SMTP connection for mail, gets the
Kapil> incoming mail size, checks up with the quota system for the
Kapil> user space, and if everything is OK the receives the mail
Kapil> data else it refuses with and error message.
4. Sendmail receives the mail, raises an error when trying to write
to the user's mailbox and returns an error.
Most mail servers don't bother interacting with the quota system.
Their motto seems to be, If you can write it, it's OK.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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