Re: [Exim] too large messages don't get logged

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Hirling Endre, Pete Naylor
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] too large messages don't get logged
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Pete Naylor wrote:

> Hirling Endre wrote...
>
> > Recently I saw that exim doesn't log messages rejected
> > because of their size if the sender supports ESMTP and tells
> > the message's size at the end of the MAIL FROM command.
>
> With the default configuration such rejections are logged both to the main
> and the reject log - grep for " message too large:".


That message happens only if the message exceeds the maximum size while
it is being read. Hirling Endre is correct in stating that there is no
logging if the MAIL FROM command is rejected because the SIZE parameter
is over the limit. I should probably do something about that.

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