Limit message size or attachment size

[Dave Filchak]

OK ... I have been convinced .... I will indeed use the MTA. Just wanted to
understand and now I certainly do ;-) Thanks for the replies.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Peter Bonivart
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:47 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Limit message size or attachment size

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> 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.

If both servers support the size extension they will not even start the
transfer at all. Even better.

--
/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

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