Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:25:08 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> To: Wayne Self <wayne@baic.com> Cc: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net>, Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>, Michael Moran <mmoran@veronet.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs Message-ID: <36F68B04.B254BDE0@eclipse.net.uk> References: <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. If setting .mc values doesn't work right, see SMM:08-61 (in /usr/share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/paper.ascii.gz) section 5.4 "M -- Define Mailer" - or just edit sendmail.cf, look for the Mprocmail line, and add a "M=3000000," or whatever size you want. You can also do N=<nice value> and various others. > >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... I've seen this before, except rather than running on T1's it was to a dialup SMTP that was accepting connections direct. Needless to say that box was reconfigured to only allow from the backup MX's :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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