Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:33:30 -0500 From: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> To: Wayne Self <wayne@baic.com>, Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>, Michael Moran <mmoran@veronet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs Message-ID: <19990320163330.G20797@intrepid.net> In-Reply-To: <000e01be724f$38f02e40$a61cd8cc@gleemonex.cdrom.com>; from Wayne Self on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:26:27PM -0800 References: <000e01be724f$38f02e40$a61cd8cc@gleemonex.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:26:27PM -0800, Wayne Self wrote: > > PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that will > be accepted by the procmail mailer. > > Does anyone know how to set this? It looks as if you can do this > even without using procmail as your local transport agent. but i > could be totaly wrong. And what happens to a message that is too large? Is it bounced back to the user? There is one danger with setting maximum sizes: Some brain dead mailers (most notable Lotus Notes), don't understand the error codes returned when the message is bounced back, and thinks it's a temporary error and continue trying to deliver the message over and over and over... We actually had one of our T1's filled by such a misconfigured mailer.... --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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