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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:04:35 +0000 (UTC), Soruk <soruk@bitbucket.eridani.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I'm trying to write something that will enforce a message size limit, 
> intended for use over a modem connection.
> 
> The other catch: No ESMTP. It has to be workable with bog-standard SMTP.
> 
> Is there a way of doing this without having to wait for all 10Mb of a 
> message to squeeze its way down a 28k8 phone line?
> 
> I know just kicking the connection will make the sending server treat it 
> as a 4xx error and retry later. What I want to do is to somehow tell it to 
> get lost and don't bother retrying if the message hits a particular 
> size threshold.
> 

Fetchmail will dump mails over a certain size, but I am not clear whether
it downloads them first or not. Procmail downloads them and then dumps
them.

I have an nc (netcat) script (bash) that could be modified to pull down the
message numbers and sizes, and then delete any that were too large 
on the server (POP) and then either bring the rest of the mail down
or get out of the way.

You can also bring down the headers and scan them for anything else 
objectionable and have those mails deleted on the server too.

There is a tool called "mailfilter" that brings down the headers for
the same reasons, and I assume that it has the option to set a size
limit.

(I THINK I have that name right.)


AC



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