> I made this "work" a long time ago at athena on 4.2bsd..
> 
> As I recall, you need to fix mail.local to:

Is mail.local used to store _all_ messages in the spool (not just ones
coming over the network)?

>  - do the write as the user, not as root, so quotas are
> enforced.
> 
>  - return a sensible error code when a user is over quota (I had it
> return EX_TEMPFAIL; others might be more brutal).

I guess I'll have to take a look at the source.  How would people
feel if this feature came as standard on NetBSD?  I would feel good. ;-)

  -jm

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