OT: obscene message sizes and idiocy - a solution!

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:03:16PM -0500):
| On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:55:05PM -0500, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
| J. P. Radley cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
| > As to Mark's per-message size limit, that's done by my MTA, smail.
| > Smail drops in as a sendmail replacement, but you don't need a manual to
| > parse most of what's in its config file; quite clear what the following
| > this does, n'est-ce pas?
| > 
| > 	max_message_size = 1.5M
| 
| Sure.  Except I'm not sure exim does it, and even if it does, I don't have
| access to my ISP's MTA.  :)
| 
| And does that smail trick let you make exceptions?  Doubtful.  I can put
| addresses above my size-drop rule that let someone I trust send me large
| attachments if they need to.  Yours would -appear- to be a generic drop
| rule with no exceptions.

Right, generic.  Which suits me, under the KISS standard.  :-)

If some goon needs to send me something bigger in email, I'll comment
that config line for a couple of hours, then set it back.  No way I'd
want a permanent exception to my email size limit.  After all, my
incoming ftp directory is open for larger file transfers.

-- 
JP
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