[lug] e-mail size restrictions

Alan Robertson alanr at bell-labs.com
Thu Nov 25 13:31:22 MST 1999


Chris M wrote:
> 
> >"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

Is that the maximum individual message size, or the maximum mailbox size?

	Thanks!

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com




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