Set mail attachment size limit?

[Ed123]

Is there a way to apply an attachment size limit to exim/smtp for 1.) outgoing mail in general, and 2.) mail sent to (cPanel-defined list) list recipients.

Problem: A customer of mine sent an e-mail w/ a 42MB (!!!) attachment to a list of 11 recipients (all recipient mailboxes on the same server), which sent qrunner into a tizzy. We finally got that straightened out and advised the customer. Later, someone else there sent 11 individual messages containing the same attachment to the same recipients.

Would like to have a situation where the server just says "no" to large attachments anyone attempts to send.

Thanks for any help.

 

[compunet2]

Anyone have a answer for this?

 

[pats]

don't know if you giys solved the problem or not, but here's the solution:

change message_size_limit in /etc/exim.conf , so to to put a limit of 500KB you should mention 500K in the exim.conf

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[WebHostPro]

cool,

Thanks for the tip

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[Doctor]

Under which section should I put "message_size_limit=?M" in exim.conf? Can I put it under ACL?

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[NNNils]

There is no message_size_limit in exim.conf

 

[chirpy]

There is no message_size_limit in exim.conf

Yup, that's right. By default there is no size limit (beyond the users email account size).

 

[netlook]

Do you think it is good to set a message limit? Please write - do you have one and how big it is?

 

[Doctor]

Originally posted by netlook
Do you think it is good to set a message limit? Please write - do you have one and how big it is?

For me, I think it is good to have control over this as it affects server load when large messages are being sent out. I would advise setting it to 5MB.

 

[NNNils]

For us running /scripts/fixquotas did fix the problem.

 

[tAzMaNiAc]

Size Limit

I seriously hope you don't have any customers affected. I would think 50MB is a more reasonable limit.

Originally posted by Doctor
For me, I think it is good to have control over this as it affects server load when large messages are being sent out. I would advise setting it to 5MB.

 

[PWSowner]

Re: Size Limit

Originally posted by tAzMaNiAc
I seriously hope you don't have any customers affected. I would think 50MB is a more reasonable limit.

True. With todays digital imaging and high speed popularity, 5MB is quite a restriction.

 

[goodmove]

Under which heading in exim.conf is message_size_limit? Do we need to add it manually?