Thanks Frazer, Too bad it doesn't work, at least I now know that and will leave it be and go on to bigger and better things. Seems funny to me that the field is there but I can't see to get it to do anything.
Thanks, Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Frazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] restricting mailbox sizes > > Scott, > I think you are SOL if you are running virtual domains. I called > Ipswitch about this awhile back and they told me the reason it doesn't > work is a FEATURE or Imail? Like that's how it should work?? The logic > baffles me, but the fact is if you are using virtuals you can't limit > storage. You can limit message size globally via Web Messaging, but not > SMTP. You have to go into each domain and setting the limits, but this > is a pain. Then the host admin can change any of these settings or if > any new account is added they will not inherit the limits. This is a > real problem when you have 1,000 virtuals on a mail server. I was hoping > you could change all this via registry and then just run a script that > goes through the entire registry and sets limits, but this too doesn't > work. > > IMHO this, only second to list serve, is the thing that Imail needs the > most work on. > > -Frazer > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Forsyth > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] restricting mailbox sizes > > Hi, > > I have what I believe is a simple question. We use the web based > control > panel for administrative purposes on IMail Server v6 and would like to > setup > each new domain name so that the following are true: > - max single email size of 5Mb > - mailbox sizes have a max size of 10Mb that the Host Administrator > can't > control. In other words, if the host administrator sets up a new > account, > they can't change the default size of 10Mb. > > Is this easily possible? Do I need to change the html templates to keep > from changing the 10Mb? > > About the max single email size of 5Mb, when setting up a new virtual > host, > I see a field called: "Single Message Max Size". This appears to be in > bytes > and is in all the documentation. But, I can't seem to get this to fail. > I've setup a new virtual host where this is set to 1,000,000 and I've > even > tried 1 but I can't see to get it to fail back because of the message > being > too large. > > What am I missing? Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
