Using MailScanner to quarantine large files

[Steve Swaney]

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> Behalf Of James Page
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Using MailScanner to quarantine large files
>
> Hi,
>
>
> My employer has a fat pipe into head office and a bunch of smaller
> branch offices around Australia and New Zealand on the end of little
> thin pipes.
>
> Like many others, we have a block on anything over a certain size so as
> to not put the squeeze on the smaller site's links. This is not ideal,
> as although the 90% of large, generally not work related inbound emails,
> are blocked, the 10% of them are important work related files.
>
> After recently implementing MailScanner and Mailwatch, it dawned on me
> how nice it would be able to use the quarantining system in MailScanner
> to hold anything over a certain size, to be released if deemed
> important. This would prevent abuse and yet still allow legitimate email
> to flow through if required.
>
> Has anyone implemented anything similar to this? If so, how? Any docs? :)
>

What you might want to consider implementing is holding large messages for
"small pipes" for transmission at off hours. Julian has implemented this
approach at a few sites and I seem to remember a few threads in the list
archives that dealt with this type of problem. I'd suggest searching the
list archives for delayed queues.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

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> Thanks
>
>
>
> James
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