Maximum Message Size, how do rules work?

[Jason Voorhees]

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Alex Neuman <alex at rtpty.com> wrote:
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> From: Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:52:28
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> Subject: Maximum Message Size, how do rules work?
>
> Hi people:
>
> I'm using MailScanner 4.79.11 on RHEL 5.4 x86_64 with a setting like this:
>
> Maximum Message Size = %rules-dir%/max.message.size.rules
> Maximum Attachment Size = -1
>
> My max.message.size.rules look like this:
>
> From: user1 at domain.com 1M
> From: user2 at domain.com 2M
> From: user3 at domain.com 4M
> From: *@domain.com 512K
> To: *@domain.com 2M
> FromOrTo: default 0
>
> According to this I'm having some issues with rules not working as
> expected so I have some questions:
>
> 1. "Maximum Message Size" evals the size of a whole message including
> all its attachments, right?.
>
> 2. If I have "Maximum Mesage Size" and "Maximum Attachment Size"
> configured as shown above, what should be the behavior among those two
> directives? Is "Maximum Message Size" which dictates the control of
> size of messages? Or are those rules ignored because of the unlimited
> value (-1) of "Maximum Attachment Size"? Or maybe "Maximum Attachment
> Size" is just ignored?
>
> 3. Rules of max.message.size.rules are evaluated like Firewall rules
> or Squid ACLs? I mean, i want to know if MailScanner matches a message
> with a rule (From: user1 at domain.com 1M) at line 3 then MS stop reading
> next lines? Does MS always read all lines and matches with the last
> rule found/matching?
>
> I'm asking this because I noted that MS isn't working properly:
>
> 1. user1 at domain.com sends a message to user7 at domain.com (not in rules
> file, so defaults to *@domain.com 2M) of 1.8 MB and MS doesn't block
> it, it just let it pass. Didn't work as expected.
> 2. user1 at domain.com sends a message to user7 at domain.com (not in rules
> file, so defaults to *@domain.com 2M) of 4.5 MB and MS doesn't block
> it, it just let it pass. Didn't work as expected.
> 3. user1 at domain.com sends a message to user7 at domain.com (not in rules
> file, so defaults to *@domain.com 2M) of 1.9 MB and MS does block it
> and send a warning message as expected.
>
> I just found a person on Internet with a similar problem with MS
> 4.79.11 and according to him the solution was to downgrade to MS 4.72.
> The link of this report (sorry, is in spanish) is:
>
> http://www.ecualug.org/2010/06/02/forums/problema_con_mailscanner_en_parametro_maxmessagesizerules
>
> Is any bug related to this settings in MS 4.79.11? I checked the
> Changelog of MS 4.81 (beta and stable) but didn't find anything
> related to this.
>
> I hope someone can help me because I don't really know what's the
> problem with my MS installation.
>
> Thanks
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