From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 28 08:52:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25996 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25989 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA06288; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:52:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:52:18 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Lynch To: James Wyatt cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, James Wyatt wrote: > btw: One of our customers uses a 500MB /var/spool/mail filesystem. We had > user send a 44MB MIME message that that filled a disk at another company. > That sendmail sent us bounce messages saying 'disk full, burp' and sending > 26MB of it back to us ... and their postmaster ... every 30 min! We ran > short on space on the MX box when the Lotus Message Snitch(tm) downstream > choked on the quantity. Nothing went down but webmaster and postmaster > mail. In your .mc file: define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `10000000')dnl For 10MB limit. No one complains about this and it prevents most of the problems. ========================================================================= Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com