Is it possible to allow mail to continue coming to the user's inbox even though it has exceeded the mailbox quota? We would like to allow mail to continue coming in but block the user from replying e-mail until he has cleared his mailbox.
I'm running Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 on Solaris 10
Hi,
> Is it possible to allow mail to continue coming to
> the user's inbox even though it has exceeded the
> mailbox quota? We would like to allow mail to
> continue coming in but block the user from replying
> e-mail until he has cleared his mailbox.
Although this may sound like a simple enough request, the devil tends to be in the detail.
Let me start by saying that blocking a user from sending emails is difficult unless you have a strictly controlled environment namely, *all* users are forced to authenticate when sending emails (so you can identify them by username) OR they only have access to webmail/UWC to send emails. Otherwise if they use any email client they can just change their FROM address and you have no way of 'blocking' their emails since you can't identify that they are the ones sending it.
So does the above apply to your situation?
On the second front, allowing emails to be delivered to overquota accounts. This is possible by sending emails via the special tcp_tas channel which overrides quotas.
Do you want *all* emails to have the ability to send to overquota accounts or do you just want select users/lists/sending systems etc. to have this ability (so for example just users X,Y,Z and any emails from the system 1.2.3.4?
Regards,
Shane.
