Hi,
To lessen the occurrence.
Make sure /etc/mail/sendmail.cf dont retry the mails in queue
by removing '-T' or '-t' from the config
eg:
Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=DFMSPhnu9,
S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -m $h $f $u
>>> Blues please comment <<<<
And current vacation.pl (as of 11 Jul 2006) need to check System Quota before executing
the forwarding and notification message.
Cheers
patrick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:54:36 -0500
Albert Croft <acroft (at mark) cyber-wizard.com> wrote:
> I've run into the issue you describe quite a few times, with users who
> get large quantities of email but insist on leaving messages on the
> server (or even sometimes with users who haven't checked email in some
> time and thus have a large amount piled up). I'm thus quite curious what
> changed would be needed to do this, and how would one retroactively
> apply the change (short of touching each user in the interface).
>
> Thanks.
> -Albert C.
>
> P.S.-Sorry for being delayed in this-I seem to be having issues with the
> list's digest mode, and just saw this mentioned when looking through the
> list archives.
>
>
> >Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:18:26 +0800 (SGT)
> >From: patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg
> >Subject: [coba-e:04208] Oops - typo: Should we set user account - hard quota to double?
> >To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> >Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0603010815470.6984-100000 (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg>
> >In-Reply-To: <20060228111334.48018415 (at mark) localhost.localdomain>
> >X-Mail-Count: 04208
> >
> >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
> >>
> >
> >