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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 5283.1 | punish them :-) | UTRTSC::KNOPPERS | Oswald Knoppers | Thu Feb 27 1997 10:30 | 3 |
| Apart from 'mc authorize modify <accountname>/flag=disuser', no.
Oswald
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| 5283.2 | No way? | ALCALA::AMALIA | | Fri Feb 28 1997 05:10 | 5 |
| Oswald, I don't understand you.
Do you mean the only solution is to disable the users from sending any
kind of mail?
Is There no way to leave them send only small mails ?
Thanks for your help
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| 5283.3 | Educate the users | UTRTSC::KNOPPERS | Oswald Knoppers | Fri Feb 28 1997 05:30 | 6 |
| > Is There no way to leave them send only small mails ?
Not as far as I know. You could limit diskquota, but you wouldn't be
limiting mail only.
Oswald
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| 5283.4 | | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Fri Feb 28 1997 09:56 | 15 |
| Limiting the size of incoming messages requires the ESMTP protocol (and
of course software that does something with it). UCX uses SMTP.
If the customer feels this is really important, he/she could set up a
UNIX relay to handle incoming and outgoing mail and run sendmail V8 on
it. sendmail (any version) can also limit the size of outbound
messages.
What makes them so sure that mail is any way related to whatever
network problems they have? In any case, it wouldn't help their
internal network much unless the incoming size screening was done at
their gateway to the outside world, and outbound messages would still
have to travel to the relay doing the outbound screening.
-Tom
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| 5283.5 | The reason limiting is imposed is because limiting is imposed | twick.nio.dec.com::PETTENGILL | mulp | Wed Mar 05 1997 01:01 | 16 |
| Since there are mail relays that limit the size of mail messages, and impose
the limit by bouncing the mail, the way to avoid have mail bounced back to
you is to limit the size of the mail messages you send.
Clearly the limits on mail size are just annoyances because there are standard
utilities to chop up a longer mail message and just send the peices. Chopping
them up increases the total size sent.
Of course, the files that need to be chopped up because they are two long
are often binary files that have to be uuencoded or mimed to get them past
the restriction on 7 bit US-ASCII.
If you consider how US centric the Internet protocols are, its easier to
understand why the French get so upset at English language of all sort.
US-ASCII has been superceded by about 5 new standards over the past 20 years,
all of which assume that a character is based on one or more octets.
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