Re: [exim] Deleting a mail that is busy sending

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Author: Ian Coetzee
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To: Alain Williams
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Deleting a mail that is busy sending
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Alain Williams <addw@???> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:22:14PM +0200, Ian Coetzee wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a question I need answering
> >
> > I have an exim mailserver
> >
> > Sometimes the users tend to get a littlebit overzealous with sending big
> > mails, I have set up limits to limit the size of the mail to 6M. They
> > sometimes try to send a 2M email to 300 rcpts. (overestimating)
>
> All too frequently happens, people have no concept as to size and have no
> interested in learning -- it is someone else's problem.
> They also don't care about filling other people's mail boxes, and most
> of what they send won't be looked at anyway.
>
> One solution that I came up with is linked to below. It is a perl script
> that
> is hooked into exim. The user sends mail with an attachment(s) to a
> specific
> address, they get a ftp URL(s) back that they can then put into emails.
> The file is thrown away after a month. There is a bit more to it than that:
>
>        http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Packages/MailToUrl.html

>


Thank you for the link I would definitely pass it on to the boss as a
suggestion


>
> > Is there a way I can tell exim to cancel sending the email, so that I can
> > delete it?
>
> Something like:
>
>        exim -Mrm 1NXO5g-00081X-HB

>


-Mrm only works on mails that are not locked

I tried that already :)

Regards
Ian

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