Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:55:13 -0800 From: "Wayne Self" <wayne@baic.com> To: "Mark Conway Wirt" <mark@intrepid.net>, "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: <002d01be748d$3520b7e0$a61cd8cc@gleemonex.cdrom.com>
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supposedly it simply determines if the message is too large for procmail. if it is, the message is delived to the users inbox rather than procmail. freebsd and procmail don't seem to work to nice with large messages. it has something to do with the way procmail deals with memory. freebsd happens to be one of the OSs that takes a beating because of it. -wayne -----Original Message----- 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 <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 1:39 PM Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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