Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam box

[Bill Landry]

----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam box One other note to add to this. ORF plugs-into MS SMTP.  I have unfortunately found that MS SMTP doesn't appear to handle rejecting oversized attachments when sent with HELO (not EHLO).  When messages don't get rejected properly, they are sent over and over again until they time out.  I have a 20 MB limit currently, but I found yesterday that there were at least 4 messages being sent over and over and over again, all in excess of 20 MB.  That's a lot of bandwidth, in fact these four or so messages chewed up about 4 times my normal bandwidth utilization.  I also noted that this issue occurred with another server using the same version of MS SMTP, and others too of course. This issue with MS SMTP is quite serious as it requires manual intervention and lots of time to identify such messages, and therefore it is also one of the reasons why I am moving to Postfix.   This would be true of any mail server.  If the remote server does not announce the size of the message, which is only supported via ESMTP, then the receiving mail server must receive the message up to the set limit before it can reject the delivery.   Bill