Limit message size or attachment size

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:23:04PM -0400, Dave Filchak wrote:
> Humm ...
> Why would less horsepower be used limiting message and attachment size using
> the MTA rather than MailScanner.  Just curious.

Postfix at least, and probably most other MTAs, will abort the
connection once the max message size is reached, not even accepting the
rest of it. The message never even gets queued this way. It doesn't get
saved to disk, the MTA forgets about it and MailScanner never sees it.

-Eric Rz.

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