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 We have run into a strange problem that may be linked to MX.

 We recently noticed that some user accounts on our system have exceeded
disk quota storage with mainly mail messages.

 For example:

A user is given a permanent disk quota of 5000 blocks and 100 blocks
overdraft, but, that user has 28000 blocks tied up with mostly .MAI files.

 After contacting our software support at DEC, it was confirmed that this is
due to a change in DEC's VMS and VMS MAIL software. As a result, any user,
who has EXQUOTA or SETPRV privileges, can send a mail message and that mail
message would go into the target user's mail file whether they had the spare
disk space or not. DEC is still researching to find out when this change came
about. We have had JNET running on our system for several years and have never
seen this problem before. As for MX, we are coming up on our first year of
running it.

DEC's solution: Remove EXQUOTA and SETPRV from the user id that is sending
               the mail message.

 The problem with DEC's solution is that our MX Mailer account is setup with
EXQUOTA privileges.

Our software configuration is: VMS V5.4-3, JNET V3.5 and MX V3.1

My questions:

 1) Has any seen or heard of this problem before?
 2) Can we remove the EXQUOTA privilege from our MX mailer account without
   any problems to MX?


 Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

                                       William Bradford
                                       WBRADFOR@UDCVAX.BITNET