[lug] e-mail size restrictions

[Pedersen, Michael J]

You're actually asking one of a number of possible questions.  Here's the
ones you could be asking, and what the answers are (as I know them):

Q) I want to prevent people from mailbombing my servers.  How do I do this?
A) You'll need to read up on your local MTA (Mail Transport Agent, most
likely sendmail).  There'll be a configuration option to limit the size of
incoming email, and you'll need to set that.

Q) I want to prevent people from using my servers to mailbomb others. How do
I do this?
A) Same as the previous question.

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.

Q) I download email from my ISP on a regular basis, but don't want to
download any messages over "x" bytes long. How do I do this?
A) I have no idea.  Can somebody else answer this one?

Those are the possible questions that I saw, but you may have been asking
something else entirely.  Would you mind letting me know in more detail what
you're asking, and I'll try to help out?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee, David P [mailto:dplee at ball.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:16 PM
> To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> Subject: [lug] e-mail size restrictions
> 
> 
> Hello LUGS
> 
> How hard is it to setup email size restrictions in Linux?
> 
> Do you need a 3rd party package?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
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