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Date:  Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:04:55 +0800
From:  patricko <patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg>
Subject:  [coba-e:04240] Re: Oops - typo:  Should we set user account - hard quota to double?
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Cc:  shibuya (at mark) alpha.or.jp
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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
> >>
> >
>