> The proper term is "forward". A "bounce" is a nondelivery notification. > > >appropriate user somewhere else on the net). I only have limited outgoing > >bandwidth (but virtually unlimited coming in), so I would much rather reject > >e-mails than send them to the user or bounce the entire e-mail back to the > >originator. > > Rejection can only be done by qmail-smtpd. Out-of-the-box, the only > mechanism for rejecting based on size is databytes, via the Another strategy, is to control it via a .qmail file for that alias. I note you say you have "virtually unlimited coming in" so in your .qmail file for that particular alias you could go*: | [ `wc -l` -gt 20000 ] && echo Too big && exit 100;exit 0 &remote-address That will bounce all messages that are larger than 20,000 bytes. Otherwise they will be forwarded. Regards. * Untested script - no warranty.
