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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-03-25 14:19:50 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-03-25 14:19:50 +0000 |
commit | 68cb23426b1fa7103bffc8f3209fa9d6d00a4812 (patch) | |
tree | 93c3cfc5c44da2c062082a987182c770c97141ae /libexec/mail.local | |
parent | acfca29d9c639ab5bc033a15080e86352a83c8e8 (diff) |
make this page slightly less sendmail centric; ok gilles
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/mail.local')
-rw-r--r-- | libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 b/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 index f77fa6daab8..c53e7f66247 100644 --- a/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 +++ b/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mail.local.8,v 1.29 2010/09/03 11:35:08 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mail.local.8,v 1.30 2014/03/25 14:19:49 jmc Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)mail.local.8 6.8 (Berkeley) 4/27/91 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 25 2014 $ .Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ user's mailbox directory .Xr flock 2 , .Xr getservbyname 3 , .Xr comsat 8 , -.Xr sendmail 8 +.Xr sendmail 8 , +.Xr smtpd 8 .Sh HISTORY A superset of .Nm @@ -134,17 +135,12 @@ A superset of as the program .Xr mail 1 . .Sh BUGS -Since -.Xr sendmail 8 -bases its idea of whether a message has been delivered or not -on the return value from -.Nm mail.local , -using quotas in +Using quotas in .Pa /var/mail -can be problematic. -By default, +can be problematic if using .Xr sendmail 8 -will ask +as an MTA, +since it asks .Nm to deliver a message to multiple recipients if possible. This causes problems in a quota environment since a message may be @@ -157,8 +153,13 @@ to attempt redelivery later. That means that some users will keep getting the same message every time .Xr sendmail 8 runs its queue. +This problem does not exist for +.Xr smtpd 8 +users. .Pp -If you are running with disk quotas on +If you are running +.Xr sendmail 8 +and have disk quotas on .Pa /var/mail it is imperative that you unset the .Dq m |