Re: User quotas

[Alan Becker <rhlin mail-now com>]

The format used by sendmail is commonly referred to as 
"Unix Mailbox Format".	Each mailbox is a single file. 
Each message begins with a line beginning "From ". This 
line is followed by the header section, which ends with 
a null line.  This is followed by the body, which also 
is followed by a null line. 

To count the messages in such a file, you could use:
  cat mailbox_file | grep -Ec "^From "

Hope this helps.
A. Becker



"Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley pcraft com> wrote:
> 
>     Now that the system is up and running, I'm moving on to the next
"problem" block.  I'm using sendmail as my MTA, and I have quotas
enabled on the /home drive.  However, how do I also count the users'
spool files in /var/spool/mail/<user> (where sendmail dumps incoming
messages)?  I want each user's quota to reflect both their account and
their spool file.
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