Report "Message too large" to sender?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Sep 12 11:42:11 IST 2004


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At 09:32 12/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Recently we were forced to limit the size of messages sent by our network's
>users due to heavy traffic caused by "junk mail" - movies, wav files etc.
>Earlier we turned off reports to avoid excess internet traffic caused by
>sending notices to infected mail senders.
>What we would like to do is to send notices about the exceeded mail size to
>senders, but to local senders only. Is there a way to configure MailScanner
>to send only notices saying "Message too large" and only to local users
>(i.e. to senders from a certain domain)?
>
>I'd be grateful for your help.
>
>Best regards,
>Sebastian
>
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