From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 20 13:34: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from loki.intrepid.net (intrepid.net [204.71.127.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CA914F45 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@loki.intrepid.net) Received: (from mark@localhost) by loki.intrepid.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA26520; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:33:30 -0500 Message-ID: <19990320163330.G20797@intrepid.net> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:33:30 -0500 From: Mark Conway Wirt To: Wayne Self , Chris Shenton , Michael Moran Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs References: <000e01be724f$38f02e40$a61cd8cc@gleemonex.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <000e01be724f$38f02e40$a61cd8cc@gleemonex.cdrom.com>; from Wayne Self on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:26:27PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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