thank you for this one. However, my problem is not only the size of
the message but as well as its contents. I want to deny also any
messages that contain .EXE files to avoid virus spread. So actually I
have to filter the message in two ways - the size and its content.
>>
>> Hello !
>> I'm rather a beginner not only with QMAIL but with unix as a whole. I
>> just wanted to ask if anyone can help - something I didn't find
>> anywhere.
>> I want to filter some incoming messages - both local and remote.
>> However, I want to filter them as they are coming, not when they have
>> come and have been placed in the queue. The whole idea is to prohibit
>> big attachments and to deny any mail with huge attachments before it
>> has arrived - for the sake of saving bandwidth, so I want to reject as
>> it comes before its being delivered already. I hope this makes sense.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Peter
>
>put your size limit in /var/qmail/control/databytes, like this:
>
>su
>echo 32700 > /var/qmail/control/databytes
>
>This will cause excessive messages to get bounced.
>
>I don't know if qmail-smtpd looks at that file or not, if not you
>could patch it to look at that file, or patch it to abruptly drop
>the connection once it has received that much data. Abruptly dropping
>connections would cause retries and so forth, though, while bounce messages
>will retrain the people sending the attachments to do something else so
>their messages can get through.
>
>
>
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