Re: SMTP mail size limit

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From: Soruk
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:57

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On 2005-05-16, Sam <sam@email-scan.com> wrote:
> 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.

Good grief. I know Usenet has been getting quieter lately, but I started 
this thread nearly five YEARS ago.

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From: Soruk <soruk@bitbucket.eridani.co.uk>
Subject: Re: SMTP mail size limit
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