[Maia-users] Message size limits ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- --On Monday, April 30, 2007 15:29:46 -0700 Robert LeBlanc <rjl at renaissoft.com> 
wrote:


> The statistic you're looking for in (1) is available from the Stats
> page, where you'll see "Min", "Max" and "Avg" columns for "Size".  The
> "Max" column seems to be what you're looking for.
>
> The size limit you're looking for in (2) is available from the System
> Configuration page as the "Mail size limit" and "Oversized items should
> be..." settings.  Items larger than this setting will not be stored in
> the database at all--they must be either blindly accepted or blindly
> rejected.

Perfect, thanks ... I was looking in the amavisd.conf file vs the GUI for (2) 
:(  I have mine set to 1M right now, which would explain the 'max(size)' return 
value ...

> There's no automatic correlation between (1) and (2) at the moment, and
> I'd be hesitant to link the two in any automatic sense, since you'd then
> never be able to receive an email larger than the previous largest item.
>  For instance, if the first mail you receive is 20k, and that becomes
> your "Max" mail size automatically, then you won't be able to receive
> anything larger than that thereafter.  Ultimately the size limit needs
> to be set manually by the administrator, after gathering some
> statistical data (from the Stats page) and taking into account the
> hardware resources available.

Agreed about linking the two automatically ... but, your reasoning only works 
*if* you have it set to reject ... one thought for a future release would be to 
move this to a per-user setting though ... let each mailbox decide what to do 
with oversized emails?  And at what size?  Instead of it being system wide ...


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