On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Mark Morley wrote:
> With exim it appears that the size of the incoming message is added to
> the current mailbox size, and if the result is larger than the quota
> the message is deferred. So if a 20MB message arrives for someone with
> a 10MB quota, that message sits in the queue and is never delivered,
> even though the user has an empty mailbox.
From the Wish List:
(67) 20-Jan-99 M Recognize message larger than user's quota as special error
"Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???>
This would allow such messages to be bounced immediately. Is there a standard
way of finding out what a user's system-imposed quota actually is? If not, this
could be done only for Exim-imposed quotas.
> Would it make sense to have a new option that tells Exim to NOT include
> the size of the current message in quota calculations? That would cause
> it to work the way we are used to.
Noted.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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