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dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:


>    We are having a problem with a full mail spool. Some users have
>large amounts of mail kept there. I am pretty sure that much of it is
>from mailing lists that they don't want to dump into thier account mbox,
>but don't really want to delete. Well, it is going to have to go now.

At UIUC we set 200K quotas for the /usr/spool/mail partition on our
student account machines (uxa has 8800 accounts, ux4 has 5500).
/bin/mail has also been modified to check quotas before delivery and
will bounce a message if the user is over quota.  It's simple, efficient,
and encourages users not to store mail in the system spool area.  It
does have the side-effect of making users vulnerable to mail bombing,
but that can be handled on a per-case basis.  

/pbp
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