Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwai.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwai!Thomas Scott Christiansen From: Thomas@uwai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Extra MAIL messages. Message-ID: <240@uwai.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 09:37:24 EDT Article-I.D.: uwai.240 Posted: Tue Sep 17 09:37:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:38:45 EDT References: <11662@rochester.UUCP> <10283@ucbvax.ARPA> <1161@srcsip.UUCP> Sender: tom@uwai.UUCP Organization: UWisc Systems Lab Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.wanted.sources:1317 net.unix-wizards:14880 *** notch@srcsip.UUCP (Michael k Notch) : > >On our system we have a problem of defined users not reading their mail > >messages and since we have many people, our disk gets filled up. > >Does anyone know of a way to set a time limit on how long a mail message > >exists? *** ..!{allegra,decvax,seismo}!rochester!ken ARPA: ken@rochester.arpa : > In 4.x BSD you could make /usr/spool/mail/ a symlink to a file in > the user's directories. > It won't save any disk space but at least it will keep /usr/spool from > overflowing and encourage users to dispose of their mail if you are > imposing quotas. this still won't work as is. sendmail refuses to deliver to a symbolic link. or a file with more than one hard link, for that matter. tom -- Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin Computer Science Systems Lab ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom tom@wisc-ai.arpa Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com