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Title: Limit user e-mail attachment size
Post by: Chris Booyens on November 09, 2000, 04:09:19 PM

Hi,

How do I limit the user e-mail attachment size?


Thank you

Chris

Title: RE: Limit user e-mail attachment size
Post by: Hasan Muhammad on November 16, 2000, 06:39:06 AM

I had planned to 'get around to his issue' until today when somebody send a message with a 63MB *.avi attachment (that's not a typo).  It crashed the Outlook Express account/mailbox files on the Win 98 client box... it took me several hours to find the problem and fix it.

I mention that to make the point that maybe this is more than a 'nice-to-have' feature... I'd vote that the based e-smith installation be configured with a  max message size (my vote would be subject to recount-of course).

Anyway here's the fix I used:

1) log on as root and create a filenamed 'databytes' containing one line with a value for the maximun size message (including attachments).  For example, for a 2MB maximun do the following.

 cd /var/qmail/control
 echo 2048000 > databytes

2) restart qmail-smtpd

 /etc/rc.d/init/qmail-smtpd restart

That's all (of course you'll want to properly package/template this according to the e-smith architecture guidelines).

Hasan

Title: RE: Limit user e-mail attachment size
Post by: Alejandro Lengua on October 02, 2003, 09:58:07 AM

Does this solution works in SME 5.6 and upper?