"Francis P. Ling" wrote:
>
> Ken Jones writes:
>
> > We discussed hardquota's on the mailing list and alot of
> > admin's said they wanted the ability to get a message
> > through to the user even if they are over quota. Like.
> >
> > "You are over quota, please delete some mail."
> >
> > Security risk, only if someone sends 10,000
> > emails. I think you would notice the reception
> > of so many emails before the user ate up all
> > of your disk. The average small email is about
> > 2K.
> >
> > Ken Jones
>
> I have to grudgingly agree that it is useful though my inept supervisor is
> think overwise. Sorry for bringing this up again, though for me this is a
> good feature.
>
> Security? Might be. One way is to implement disk-based quota, am I right?
Sure, depends on how you want to set things up.
But I would worry about something else. Mail Bombs. Your supervisor
is worried about being mail bombed. I would worry more about being
able to detect that then vpopmail allowing the machine to fill up.
Think about it:
It would take 1,000 messages of 1K each to eat up 1M of disk space.
Presumably you have more than 10M free space. So it would take,
10,000 messages to create 10M of disk space.
Your admin's should be able to detect such a spike in email
traffic long before your disk space is eaten up.
I suggest your boss concentrates on where the problems are instead
of trying to kludge together solutions that he has never experienced.
Becareful, don't design around emotions. Check facts, get statistics,
then create your design.
Ken Jones
