their is a patch available for limitting bounce sizes. Maybe it is still on
the qmail pages, otherwise search in the mailarchives (someone recently
posted it again).
Franky
> ----------
> From: torben fjerdingstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 9:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: limiting the file size of bounces ?
>
> How do I limit the filesize in bounces?
>
> Too often, a customer sent a huge mail mail through our mail
> relay which could not be delivered to the destination because
> of the size. It could not be returned to the sender either,
> because it is too large. And the whole message ends up in
> my postmaster mailbox as a double bounce :-(
>
> Then, I lowered databytes to 1Mb, because it had to be
> lower than on our customers mail servers to solve the
> problem above.
>
> A customer suggests that I instead just bounce the mail
> headers and the error messages back to the sender.
> (and discard the content of the original letter).
>
> How is that done?
>
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