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[Blittermuis]

In article <1161 at srcsip.UUCP> notch at srcsip.UUCP (Michael k Notch) writes:
>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?

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.

	Ken
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