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Re: [cobalt-users] POP3 Question
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] POP3 Question
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 4 11:42:03 2000
- Organization: nobaloney.net
John Cordeiro wrote:
> 1/2 really, I didnt know that. Why does it only take 1/2 the quota for mail?
Because the pop daemon copies the mail file to a temporary file first.
And the temporary file is owned by the user.
The way you get around this in unix/linux is to put your /tmp directory
in it's own partition, on which you do NOT set quotas.
You can't do that on a RaQ, though <frown>.
Jeff
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