If your users are generally using a Windoze based system, isn't it possible
that you could place all attachments on to an open access file store (with
file level access restriction) and replace the attachment with a text file
containing a URL and password (or whatever) to retreive the file using ftp?
Zed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:mallet@efn.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: Exim Users
> Subject: Re: [Exim] An interesting problem with large spools
>
>
> Paul Robinson rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > I've worked in environments where it was OK to kill any one
> mail over 5Mb in
> > size which solved a lot of problems, but even though we
> offer ISP services,
> > nearly all of our customers are graphic design houses.
> Guess how popular
> > that policy would be with these guys? We even give them free
> > multiple-account FTP areas and they don't use them! Bah! :-)
>
> Outlook seems to do that to people.
>
> > > Simple cure - ditch qpopper and switch to gnu-pop3d
> <http://www.ndn.net> -
> > > I've found it rock-solid stable in these conditions.
>
> > Slight problem with this, and something I didn't explain in
> my previous
> > mail. We're not using an unpatched qpopper - we're using
> the MySQL patch so
> > that all of our users sit in MySQL tables, and exim does
> delivery based on
>
> AFAICT, gnu-pop3d supports mysql / ldap and suchlike quite
> well. There is also
> a patch to handle virtual domains.
>
> > problematic. However, qpopper has got on my nerves enough
> in the last 9
> > months that I am seriously considering spending some time
> either patching
> > another pop3d or perhaps even writing my own from scratch
> which would allow
> > configuration file directives for MySQL similar to exim. If
> I were to make
>
> > It's only a dream, but a nice one. I want something similar
> for RADIUS as
> > well. In fact, I just want all software to be designed and
> written as well
> > as exim! :-)
>
> Hear, Hear.
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian + mallet<@>efn.org
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>
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