Re: Re[2]: [vps-mail] Limit files size on procmail and clamav

[Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Wilson Pickett <wilson.pickett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Abigail,
> 
> Yes, and be careful because if this limit is too
> low, it infuriates
> clueless users who ask for 12 meg files that contain
> a single
> Powerpoint still image. PLus, as we all know,
> sendmail errors are
> stuck inside all the SMTP RFC stuff and almost no
> one reads the actual
> reason the mail was rejected.

Well, fortunately I have a lot of clueless users who
have email forwarded to AOL accounts -- last time I
checked the AOL limit was 9 or 10 megs -- I'll check
again but as long as I keep our SMTP on a par with
that, they won't know the difference - they can't send
or receive either way. 

This is a different issue entirely than the clamav
scanning, which I'm limiting to about 200kb via
procmail (most virus infected files are about 30-80k).
To me it's more of a maintenance/security issue
because weird things happen to cause my disk usage to
get dangerously high sometimes, but only if I happen
to be going on vacation right then so I don't see the
email warning from Via Verio. 

-Abigail
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