Maximum Message size question

[Jason Williams]

Hi Peter,

>Yes, but remember that MIME encoding adds like 20-30% to the size so
>don't expect users to be able to send 15 MB attachments with that limit.

Ya. I am starting to notice. I am getting a lot of messages that are
getting blocked because they contain too many attachments.
Looking my MailScanner.conf:

Maximum Attachments Per Message = 8

Now, we do receive a lot of mails containing attachments from our vendors
that are important for us to receive. At the same time, I am noticing that
some of the emails being blocked for too many attachments are personal
emails...

So right now, im trying to balance everything out here to ensure that we do
receive our attachments from our vendors without getting blocked.

Any suggestions?



>It's this one that complains above. The default settings are 0 and -1
>which turns off size checking, see comments above the options.

Hmm...not sure if I want HUGE attachments coming through. :)

>--
>/Peter Bonivart
>
>--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
>Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.29.7,
>SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.45, ClamAV 0.70 + GMP 4.1.2, Vispan 1.4

Thanks Peter!!

Jason

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