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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:05:46 +1030 (CST)

Re: /var/spool/mail

Hi,

> I have check through the /var/spool/mail directory and found that users
> have mail of over 10MB stored under their name.  When I asked them to
> retrieve their mail, there is no new mails.  Why is that the spool is
> still keeping their old mails?  Is there any way for me to reduce that
> amount of space?

Are they reading their email via POP ? If so, the client could be
configured to not delete messages from the server.

You couold set a quota n /var/spool/mail, but that could have other
repercussions on bouncing mail.

cya

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