AIX Mail stored in AFS space

Christopher Lindsey lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:30:24 -0600


> Well, we are running our Unix mail server with mailboxes in user's home
> directories. 
> We had to compile sendmail with some fixes and use also reauth module that
> klogs every week or so
> Mailboxes are located under ~/.Mail/INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail
> It works fine.

Hi Gregory,

   How do you deal with the quota issue?  It's been our experience that
   files will be reset to a zero length if they're appended to and a user
   is over quota, which doesn't bode well for mailboxes.

Chris