[lug] e-mail size restrictions

Chris M chrism at peakpeak.com
Wed Nov 24 06:34:42 MST 1999


>"Pedersen, Michael J" wrote:
> >
><snip>
>
> > Q) I want to limit the size of the mail files which a user can 
>have.  How do
> > I do this?
> > A) You'll need to set up quotas for each user.  See
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html for more information.
>
>It is my understanding that the way to do this in recent versions of 
>Sendmail is
>to use some new, unknown-to-me sendmail parameter.  That way, the 
>sending party
>will get a specific bounce message for the situation.
>
>	-- Alan Robertson
>	   alanr at bell-labs.com


# maximum message size
O MaxMessageSize=1000000

In your sendmail.cf

See http://www.sendmail.org for details.

Chris
Peak to Peak Internet
http://www.peakpeak.com





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