2 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: Stopping big bounces
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Joe LaffeyApr 15, 2004 9:39 am 
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Subject:[courier-users] Re: Stopping big bouncesActions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Apr 15, 2004 3:33:41 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Joe Laffey writes:

Sometimes a silly user will try to send a giant email to one of their clients. Then that client's moronic mailserver will bounce the ENTIRE message back to my user. Courier will reject it becuase it is too big for my user's mailbox as well. It then gets bounced to me the postmaster.

What is the best way to limit the amount of bacndwidth wasted here? At the

Courier's default configuration is to not include the text of the bounced message if it exceeds 32K.

See the 'dsnlimit' configuration file in the courier(8) man page.