On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Dan Horth wrote:
> Hi all - another rambling brain dumb on issues I've been thinking
> about regarding our server systems...
>
> We have a cap on our max message size accepted by sendmail because
> we're on a slow link and we pay by transfer amount - so we try to
> discourage our friends from sending us 20MB MPEG movies (unless
> they're really good! :)
>
> Anyway - since we've started doing mail relaying for a client we've
> noticed a few of these "message rejected because it is too big"
> messages from sendmail...
>
> Sep 16 02:41:07 server sendmail[4577]: AAA04577: message size
> (7376264) exceeds maximum (6000000)
>
> I was just wondering if someone could clarify as to whether sendmail
> would have received 6000000 bytes of the message before realising it
> was too big and rejecting it... or would it have rejected it before
> any data was transferred?
>From memory, there's two checks, the first via ESMTP in which it's rejected at the
>handshake level. The second is at delivery (ie after the message has been received).
>First is god, second is ok if bandwidth isn't so important.
Tom
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