Re: message_size_limit exceptions

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message_size_limit exceptions
\ Geert Hendrickx (29 May 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (29 May 2007)
. . \ Geert Hendrickx (30 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: message_size_limit exceptions
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Geert Hendrickx
Date:	30 May 2007

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:26:51PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in which part of Postfix is message_size_limit enforced? If it's in
>
> In the cleanup server, several processes away from the user or
> client.
>
> smtpd duplicates the test, to avoid pumping lots of mail through
> a before-queue content filter or Milter. But smtpd does not have
> the final word.
>
> In theory it should be possible to set a huge message_size_limit
> in main.cf and then give smtpd a smaller limit in the master.cf
> command line.

Thanks Wietse, that might to the trick.

Geert