Re: SMTP mail size limit

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From: Sam
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:24

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Alan Connor writes:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:04:35 +0000 (UTC), Soruk <soruk@bitbucket.eridani.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

He is not talking about fetchmail.  This has nothing to do with fetchmail.  
He is receiving mail using SMTP.


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