Email report of stripped attachment when exceeding size limit

[Martin Hepworth]

2008/12/18 David Lee <david at bass.net.au>:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks for the response.
> When looking at it from a spamming perspective that makes senses.
> I've up the maximum message size limit to match that of our internal SMTP
> server so this shouldn't be an issue any more for outbound mail.
>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Am currently running Mailscanner (v4.67.6) with MailWatch on a FreeBSD
>>> 7.0
>>> server (I realise the version of MailScanner is quite old, but I have
>>> installed it via the FreeBSD Ports system).
>>>
>>> I have a question regarding reporting a stripped mail attachments when
>>> they
>>> exceed the maximum configured message size limit. When this occurs the
>>> intended recipient of the email receives the report detailing what has
>>> happened on possible actions to take to prevent it (e.g. compressing the
>>> attachment). I would of thought that this report should be sent back to
>>> the
>>> sender of the email, since they are the ones who can do something about
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Is this the expected functionality of MailScanner or do I have some
>>> mis-configured?
>>>
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>>
>>
>> David
>>
>> I suggest emailing the recipient is best as there are some very large
>> PDF's etc around that are actually spam and hence the 'from' would be
>> incorrect. If you're seeing alot of this then I'd up the attachment
>> limit.
>>
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Ah - if you're scanning outbound email you might want to change the
settings for this based on the 'from' ip-address.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK