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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 17:56:36 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: maximum message size
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501175544.6888A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <19980501194338.08115@welearn.com.au>

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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Sue Blake wrote:

> Can it be that simple??

Yes. Use something like:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`

to restart it properly.

> 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? If so would it return their
> mail to them with a nasty note saying it's too big, or what?

No, it would get to 100bytes and then refuse to accept the message...

Regards,

d.

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| Dean Hollister,           | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au |  
| Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au        |
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