From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 06:18:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA13540 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 06:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA13534 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 06:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id JAA03424; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:06 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Sue Blake cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maximum message size In-Reply-To: <19980501194338.08115@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > I found these lines in sendmail.cf > > # maximum message size > #O MaxMessageSize=1000000 > > So, I guess all I'd have to do is remove the # from the second line, > change that number (presumably the number of bytes) and restart sendmail, > then it'd limit messages to that number of bytes, like this: > > # maximum message size > O MaxMessageSize=100 > > Can it be that simple?? Yup. > OK, assuming it is, what would it do for me? Would it prevent people from > emailing me 1Kb of info in a 2 meg Word file? It will reject any messages > whatever you put there. > If so would it return their > mail to them with a nasty note saying it's too big, or what? Yes. > If it's such a great idea, why doesn't everyone do it? :-) 'Cause customers get upset when they don't receive the 57meg, 1800x1600x64M .tiff of aunt Millie's gall bladder operation scar. Naturally if they did get it they couldn't download it so you just have to delete it for them anyway. :( -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message