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At 2:25 PM -0400 7/28/05, Charles Mangin wrote:
is there any way to limit the size of incoming attachments? i'd like to allow people to have 20 meg mailboxes, but limit them to 5 meg attachments, as specific clients on slow connections have trouble with any email larger than about 5 megs - the client times out while downloading, and the server spins and spins resending the same few megs of data... burning bandwidth and slowing the server for everyone else.
i doubt there's any way to prevent this, short of limiting her mailbox size to 5 megs, but i wonder if the group has any suggestions.
You might be able to hack a copy of StripMime - a MacPerl script - to check the size of the attachment. I use it to strip attachments off messages bound for my listserv, as I got tired of having mail get rejected and then having to explain to users that they ARE in fact sending attachements when they send html mail, styled text, .vcfs, etc.
I don't know if there's a way to check message or attachment size in Perl, though I suspect there probably is.
The problem with using "skip messages over___ k" in Eudora etc is that will still leave the large attachment on the server... and if you set a 20mb limit, it'll probably bump into that in short order. Unless you're manually clearing the larger ones.
I use MailSiphon for checking/deleting hung mail a lot. It seems to happen to my Entourage and Outlook users (both of which we officially don't support) on large attachments on a more frequent basis lately. Anyone else seeing this?
Let me know if you want a copy of StripMime as hacked by another SIMS user to work on SIMS.
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