> I have to limit the e-mails the users can receive _per_quota_basis_.
> For this purpose I mounted a quoted /var/mail partition, but I've seen that mail.local
> append the messages to a "user" file with the directory privileges (root, wheel), making
> the quota armless.
> To avoid this behaviour I modified the mail.local source to manually check the user quota
> and let it append the message only if the quota limit is not exceded.
> 
> Please let me know if (or not) another solution exists.

seteuid(2) to user

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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