Enhancement request 'message too large'

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Oct 28 09:44:47 IST 2004


You could do it with a Custom Function. Look at the message object to
determine whether it is too large or not, and set the quarantine directory
to a different value depending on what it finds.


On 28/10/04 9:32 am, "Remco Barendse" <mailscanner at BARENDSE.TO> wrote:

> For some reason our M$ Exchange server that it's time to silently drop
> messages above approx. 3 Mb in size. The sender doesn't get any message
> and the recipient gets nothing.
>
> I used the MailScanner feature message size restriction to at least notify
> both parties. The messages are quarantined nicely :)
>
> Would it be possible to have the attachments saved separately of the df/qf
> pair in the quarantine directory? In 99.9% of the cases the exceeded
> size message problem will be caused by attachments.
>
> (Can I extract an attachment manually from the df file?)
>
> Thanks!!
>
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