Ok.. great.. I ve read the article and have fairly understood the logic behind not implementing FastFail.
So, wat do those users do who have to implement a company-policy that restricts oversized emails (say above 3 MB) from being downloaded to the server. Lets not discuss the case of hackers/crackers/spammers etc, for the sake of simplicity. Any workarounds ? Lahu --- Craig Raw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you are asking for is fast fail. See > http://wiki.apache.org/james/NoFastFail for reasons > why > this is not implemented in James. > > In my experience I find that the culprits are > restricted to one or two remote servers. I have > written a mailet that logs a summary of every > email's size and remote host to the database. When I > > notice smtp bandwidth is high, I consult this log to > find the likely source. I can then block the > responsible hosts at the firewall level. > > -craig > > > Lahu wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to block/reject AND MOST > IMPORTANTLY > > prevent over-sized emails from being downloaded AT > ALL > > to the company mail-server. > > > > The current "SizeGreaterThan" mailet does this > only > > after downloading the emails first and then > > analysing/evaluatiing etc. In my case, I dont want > the > > email/attachment/message/etc. to be downloaded at > all. > > > > If not, then wat is the workaround ? Coz, without > > this, it is possible for anybody to bombard the > mail > > server wid heavy mails such as 5 MB and do a DOS > > attack on us?? > > > > I m very concerned about this. > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on > time. > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
