Hi, At 10:43 AM 4/15/97 -0400, Paul Wade wrote:
>This is because they are using a remote email client (netscape, etc.)? If >so that is a big part of the problem. Right, we use a POP-3 client like Eudora or Netscape Mail to retrieve mail. >Is this being caused because of spam and junk email? No, the problem is that users do not follow the policies of not sending e-mail attachments to users that retrieve mail via a dial-in connection. >A temporary remedy is to use a shell and pine to delete the basura from >the mailbox and then retreive the remaining messages with the client >program. I have been thinking about using procmail. >Quotas will possibly prevent important mail from being viewed if it >arrives after mail with large attachments. Uhhmmm... you are absoluteli right, I had't thought about this. This leads me to think that a want to limit the size of incoming mail (in a user per user basis), not the size of the mail box. >Some users can only send and receive files as email attachments. They are >"mulas" and will not learn ftp. I want them to use FTP whenever they want to send a huge document. FTP should be more efficient. At least it doesn't increase the size of the file by applying a codification algorithm (like UUCode or MIME.) Thanks for the help. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 Cel.: +58-16-234700 "Where does this path lead?" said Alice "Depends on where you want to go." Said the cat ("Alice in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll.)