Re: [cobalt-users] EMail limit and Raq3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Werby wrote:

> If they don't have web space then just set their quota through the GUI.
> Keep in mind that the way QPopper (the POP3 server) works, when a mail file
> is accessed it is copied to a temporary file so if you have a user quota of
> 10 MB and the user's spool is at 6 MB they won't be able to retrieve their
> email b/c QPopper will try to create a copy of the 6 MB file and will hit
> the 10 MB limit before it finishes.  So you really have to set the quota to
> 20 MB if you want users to be able to actually store 10 MB of email *and*
> retrieve it.  Yes, there are ways around it, but they are pretty complex and
> I have never had the need to implement them on a Cobalt server.  If you need
> to know how, you might want to join the isp-linux mailing list or search
> their archives if they have any online.  To join,
> mailto:join-isp-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The way we've always done this in the past (but not on RaQs) is to
create an independent partition on the hard disk, specifically for the
/tmp directory.  And NOT set quotas for it.

Not doable on the RaQ series, I'm afraid.  At least not without serious
modification.

However, I recently read somewhere about doing this with a qpopper
configuration file change.  It seems there's a setting you can make if
everyone logs in through POP3 and no one logs in locally.

Don't remember it, though <frown>.

Jeff
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