Re: [Exim] How to reject large messages ?

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Author: Yann Golanski
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To: charlie
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to reject large messages ?
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:16:10PM +0100, Charlie Freckleton wrote:
> Is there any way of rejecting overly large messages, before they hit the
> system filter ?
>
> As I read it, the entire message has to be downloaded, before a system filter,
> or a transport has a chance to examine the size and reject the message.
>
> There is an option in the makefile (HEADER_MAXSIZE), which allows exim to
> reject after it has received 1Mb of headers and it might be an idea to add
> in something along the same lines for the body.


RTFM: message_size_limit

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