On 2004-05-15 Kevin Reed <listaccount@???> wrote:
> We have had an influx of people who are sending in very large email
> messages, 20-35mb to a number of our users. Exim fronts our mail system
> on the outside and is used internally for the mail hub as well. All
> regular user mail is in exchange however and there, there is a limit of
> about 7mb including headers for any inbound email to a user.
> So.. the mail arrives at the gateway, gets passed on to the and gets
> denied/bounced at the Exchange server.
> The bounce is as big as the mail arriving was despite the fact that the
> bounce_return_size_limit default is supposed to be 100k.
> My question is, is the reason why the return is so large, because Exim
> didnt actually generate the bounce, the Exchange server did and it simply
> is transporting the error (sometimes 20+mb's worth) back to the sender?
[...]
Yes, that is correct. Why don't you enforce the message-size limit on
the exim-host?
cu andreas
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