On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Kevin Cozens wrote:
If the user goes over quota and exceeds the grace period, they will no longer be able to create new files until they get back under the soft quota limit. If an account goes over quota for longer than the grace period how will this affect their incoming mail? Will qmail still deliver their mail in to their account or will it be bounced?
Can't speak specifically for qmail, but I have seen this situation with another MTA. The mail bounced with a 5xx series error (this is a permanent failure), basically "User over quota". You may like to look at RFCs 2821 & 2822. This is distinct from a situation in which the filesystem is full which would normally fail with a 4xx error (transient failure). In this case remote MTAs will continue to attempt delivery as they would in any other case when delivery was prevented.
I don't have a user anywhere near their quota limits yet. I'm just checking on expected behaviour.
I'd suggest creating a test user, setting a low quota, forcing it over the soft limit and mailing the account to actually cause the condition to occur. A test user is valuable for this sort of thing. When not in use for testing the account should be locked. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml