Topic: Limiting email attachment Sizes in Qmail.

[Ashley SHaw]

Hi there everyone,

I have searched the forums for a solution to limit users qmail attachment sizes (not just for webmail), but it has been to no avail. I have a 64k dedicated connection to the net that is being clogged by irresponsible users. I am going to implement SquidGuard or/and DansGaurdian with SpamAssasin, this combination will make a great difference to the bandwidth problem, but the users are still mailing large attachments. Is there a way to limit users to e.g.1Mb attachments? If so does it require extra software or can Qmail itself be configured to apply these limits?

Thanks alot in advance!!  

Cheers
Ashley in South Africa

[Bertrand CHERRIER]

in the /var/qmail/control directory you can create a file name databytes, it will fix the maximum size of an outgoing message (take into account the mime enveloppe for your attachement size limit -+=25%)

http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

[Damien Curtain]

Ashley SHaw wrote:
>
> Hi there everyone,
>
> I have searched the forums for a solution to limit users
> qmail attachment sizes (not just for webmail), but it has
> been to no avail. I have a 64k dedicated connection to the
> net that is being clogged by irresponsible users. I am going
> to implement SquidGuard or/and DansGaurdian with SpamAssasin,
> this combination will make a great difference to the
> bandwidth problem, but the users are still mailing large
> attachments. Is there a way to limit users to e.g.1Mb
> attachments? If so does it require extra software or can
> Qmail itself be configured to apply these limits?

I think you'll find you can do:
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smtpfront-qmail MaxMessageSize
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

Where is the maximum message size in bytes.
--
 Damien

[Troy Robinson]

Any other ideas???
I've tried both these methods and it still won't change the attachment size limit.
Am running e-smith 5.1

Thanks in advance.
Troy