At 2:25 PM -0400 7/28/05, Charles Mangin wrote:
>is there any way to limit the size of incoming attachments? i'd like
>to allow people to have 20 meg mailboxes, but limit them to 5 meg
>attachments, as specific clients on slow connections have trouble
>with any email larger than about 5 megs - the client times out while
>downloading, and the server spins and spins resending the same few
>megs of data... burning bandwidth and slowing the server for everyone
>else.
>
>i doubt there's any way to prevent this, short of limiting her
>mailbox size to 5 megs, but i wonder if the group has any suggestions.

While the client can take care of it on the client side, there are also
solutions that involve some sort of pre-processing.  You could do it
strictly on OS 9 (or less) with macjordomo and a one-person list, but if
the client isn't bright enough to set "skip messages over __ K" (or the
non-Eudora equivalent), then can you really expect them to configure a
different reply-to address from the one they actually check?


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