/var/spool/mail). In order for the mail
server to continue receiving mail, there must be sufficient free
space available.
/var/spool/mail/$USER).
Several users are using this misfeature, either inadvertently or
intentionally, and storing large amounts of already read message in
/var/spool/mail. As a result the 100MB originally
allocated for /var/spool/mail is currently 56% full (at
the time this message was composed). The top five users were
consuming 75% of the total space in use.
/var/spool/mail/$USER, please stop doing this and save
read messages in an alternative folder or mailbox that is not in
/var/spool/mail.
If you are unintentionally leaving already read messages in your
incoming mailbox or you are unaware of how to save messages to an
alternative folder or mailbox, please contact action@gloworm (be
sure to indicate the mail program you use, e.g. mail,
elm, pine, dtmail, etc.).
For every account, The default maximum incoming mail box size is 500 KB. Usually we give user some time to clean his mailbox and won't block his imcoming email even the mailbox size reached 500 KB. But this policy doesn't mean that we encourage user to leave already read messages in his mailbox.
You should probably check your available quota (quota
-v) and the size of your incoming mailbox (
ls -l /var/spool/mail/$USER) before
blindly trying to save all messages in your incoming mailbox to your
home directory. If you need more disk quota, contact action@gloworm.
/var/spool/mail.