OT: Sophisticated size limiting ...

Alex Neuman van der Hans alex at NKPANAMA.COM
Sat Oct 8 00:17:22 IST 2005


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Garry Glendown wrote:

>Possibly/Most likely not really a MS question, but maybe somebody has an
>idea ...
>
>A customer of ours is running a Linux system, having switched from a
>Novell/Tobit server ... Before, they had the possibility of
>"quarantining" specific mails, like, too large, unwanted attachment or
>too many recipients. Just a couple days ago, something happened that
>would have been avoided with the old system - some "intelligent" user
>sent a mail to 400+ local users with an 13MB word attachment (MIME
>encoded 18mb mail) ...
>
>Question: Does anybody know of a way to do some more granularly
>defineable mail handling, as mentioned above? I know I can set the
>maximum message size, which would be a starter, but then the message
>should be forwarded to the admin account, not rejected ...
>
>Tnx, -garry
>
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Perhaps this is something that could be implemented using MCP, although 
I don't know if SA supports creating a rule based on message size.

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