Re: quota's

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Brown" <[email protected]>
To: "Obantec Support" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: quota's


> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Obantec Support wrote:
>
> > how do i use a configuration file and restart (if needed) qpopper to use
the
> > config file. i have space on the drive to add a new directory say
> > /users/tmp/mail and have popper use this for the .pop files.
>
> If you're running qpopper from inetd then it will pick this up
> immediately, however you must have that temp directory on a separate
> _filesystem_ or the users will hit the same quota limit.
>
> It is best to set the user's quota hard limit at least twice the soft
> limit, with a very short grace period (hours or minutes if possible) -
> to ensure they don't go much overquota on normal mail flow.
>
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Hi

i ran popper from the command line. i should look into using inted.
just found the qpopper.config file in the src directory samples.

i think for now I'll use the quota option as that is quick and easy.

later i will need to know how to safely change to using the config file and
inted.

Mark