Hi,
hmm...
Have used qpopper -R -S -s for years.
But .username.pop still exits in /var/spool/mail.
Cheers
patrick
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:40:19 +0900
Hisao SHIBUYA <shibuya (at mark) alpha.or.jp> wrote:
> Hi patrick,
>
> BlueQuartz has qpopper-4.0.5-1BQ4 which is configured with --enable-
> server-mode, then qpopper doesn't copy for reading.
> Did you find a .username.pop copy in /var/spool/mail?
> If so, add -S option to /etc/xinetd.d/pop3 such as
> server_args = in.qpopper -s -S
> And, restart xinetd.
> And then, you can access to pop3 without copy.
>
> Regards,
> Hisao
>
>
> On 2006/03/01, at 9:18, patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg wrote:
>
> > Blues any coments?
> >
> >
> > Double hard quota for not?
> > Give users for grace quota?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In case, you need the following for comment:
> >
> > Hard Limit
> > The hard limit defines the absolute maximum amount of disk space
> > that a
> > user or group can use. Once this limit is reached, no further disk
> > space
> > can be used.
> >
> > Soft Limit
> > The soft limit defines the maximum amount of disk space that can be
> > used.
> > However, unlike the hard limit, the soft limit can be exceeded for a
> > certain amount of time. That time is known as the grace period.
> >
> > Grace Period
> > The grace period is the time during which the soft limit may be
> > exceeded.
> > The grace period can be expressed in seconds, minutes, hours, days,
> > weeks,
> > or months, giving the system administrator a great deal of freedom in
> > determining how much time to give users to get their disk usage below
> > their soft limit.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > patrick
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, patricko wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Since another partition serving as non-quota temporary mail spool,
> >> a normal mailbox will be copied over to mail spool.
> >>
> >>
> >> Therefore the actual quota needed will be more than actual quota.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Why?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> While the qpopper is serving - user popping mails, New mails will
> >> enter the mailboxes and
> >> qpopper session will not be able to secure the required space in
> >> user quota to write back the remaining mails from the mail spool.
> >>
> >>
> >> I am suggestion we set the linux hard quota x2 of actual quota.
> >>
> >> eg: patricko's 1MB mailbox
> >>
> >> Disk quotas for user patricko (uid 1604):
> >> Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes
> >> soft hard
> >> /dev/sda8 26716 1025 2048
> >> 9 0 0
> >>
> >>
> >> I think by doing so, mail grossly overquota maildrop - lock issue
> >> will be lessen!?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Request for comment.
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> patrick
> >>
> >
>