Jeff Hayward writes:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Sam wrote:
> 
>    > - If the mail received is like 15 Mb, it will be denied. But will it be
>    > denied before being sent to my SMTP server or after ?
>    
>    After.
> 
> Unless you set an incoming limit using control/databytes.

Nope.  Your server will still dutifully receive every byte of a 30 megabyte
mailbomb.  Qmail will stop writing to the disk when it hits the limit, and
will eventually reject the message once the sender stops spewing.  But
still, you're gonna get the whole thing.

-- 
Sam

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