Extra MAIL messages.

[Thomas at uwai.UUCP]

***  notch at 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 at rochester.arpa :
> In 4.x BSD you could make /usr/spool/mail/<user> 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

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Tom Christiansen
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Systems Lab 
...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom
tom at wisc-ai.arpa