Ben Kennedy schrieb: > Hey all, > > For the past day or so, one of my users has been trying to relay a 250 > megabyte message. I started noticing a 400 kbps spike on my MRTG graph > that started yesterday evening, and after doing some capturing with > snort, realised that it was due to repeated inbound sessions on port 587 > from the same IP address. > > Sure enough, in the maillog there is a "523 Message length exceeds > administrative limit" message every hour or so. Apparently, the client > will connect, spew hundreds of megabytes of data until it thinks it's > done, gets the 523 message, and blindly try again. Repeat ad infinitum. > > I have just gotten through to the responsible party on the phone; > apparently they now recognize this as the problem, but for whatever > reason can't figure out how to delete it from their outbound queue in > Outlook. *rolls eyes*
> Any comments or suggestions, anyone? This is typical for this Outlook crap - it doesn't obey a 5xx message and sends the message over and over again - same problem happens with Postfix instead of Courier as the SMTP server :( Fix the client - not the server... Cheers, Juri ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
