Maximum Message size question

[Alex Neuman]

How about using rulesets to make messages from vendor.com have a higher
number of max attachments, and the default to something lower?

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Behalf Of Jason Williams
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Maximum Message size question


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. :)

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>/Peter Bonivart
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Thanks Peter!!

Jason

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