[Gllug] OT Mail relay configuration issue

[Dylan]

On Friday 05 Mar 2004 15:13 pm, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:11:42PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> > I fall somewhere between the two. Yes, 100K is excessive, but 4K is
> > probably too small. It's sometimes informative to have more than
> > just the headers. I'd probably put the cutoff at around 15-20K or
> > so. Just checking some of our previous bounces here, I've found one
> > with 11K of useful header info (it eventually failed due to too
> > many hops), and had it been truncated at 4K, we wouldn't have been
> > able to diagnose and fix the problem.
>
> Now that's an argument that I can accept.  100K is just the default
> option and I smell an ignorant bastard wasting my time.

Can't the system be configured to strip the body and attachments, 
leaving the headers intact? That way a fixed size limit would be 
unnecessary...

£0.02
Dylan

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