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Re: [cobalt-developers] Maibox fill up leading to anti-spamlisting

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Herb Rubin wrote:

> I have users that let their mailbox fillup (20 megs) and get new
> incoming mail bouncing back to their "senders".
>
> I need a way to quietly delete the new incoming mail. I assume its
> probably a sendmail config file issue. Can anyone help me?
>
> The reason is: When spam gets bounced, it's obviously not going to
> back to the sender. So, it appears that my Cobalt Raq 4 is the spammer.
>
> I am getting listed in the anti-spam database spews.org as a spammer
> when my server is really just bouncing!!
>

I tell my users that when their mailbox breaks the quotas
the mailbox goes
rm /home/spool/mail/the-user
Acutally they get a 24 hour warning

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