Subject: Re: none

From: Wing Yin Leung <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:49:01 +0000 (GMT)

Please could you help me. I have a problem sending my mail and I can't
understand why. I have followed the usual procedures, but the words 
"user quota exceeded" appear on the sceen frequently; as do "write to 
sent-mail: Failed", "/home/alpha2/user3/wyl/dead.letter" ect...

I would really appreciate it if you could give me some advice to sort 
this out once and for all. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Ms W.Y.Leung

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 14 Nov 1997 17:34:07 +0100

>> "WYL" == Wing Yin Leung <[email-masked]> writes:

WYL> Please could you help me. I have a problem sending my mail and I
WYL> can't understand why. I have followed the usual procedures, but
WYL> the words "user quota exceeded" appear on the sceen frequently;
WYL> as do "write to sent-mail: Failed",
WYL> "/home/alpha2/user3/wyl/dead.letter" ect...

Your Internet Service Provider decided that each user should only have 
X amount of space on his hard-drive. You've been assigned this quota X 
and have exceeded it. You need to delete some files in your home
directory (i.e. /home/alpha2/user3/wyl/ or simply ~/). You can run a
unix command called "du" (i.e. du ~/) to find out which files or
directories take up too much space. Probably, you'll want to delete a
bunch of old mailfolders. Best thing for you to do is to talk to your
local help desk and ask them how to proceed. If you're the adventurous 
kind of person, try saying:

	man quota
	man du
	man rm
	man mcopy
	man pine

to find out how to help yourself. WARNING: rm cannot be "undeleted"...

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a
good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)