Is there a way to quarantine messages over a certain size? I want to permit a max message size of say 50MB, but I would like to quarantine messages over 15MB. Is there a way to create such an object?
Can I quarantine large messages
- Thread starter JJLatProxmox
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That's a shame. Another gateway test down.
Allow me to make that a suggestion. The ability to quarantine email based on size has been very useful. It would be nice to have a different set of size rules for inbound and outbound email, but quarantining instead of outright rejection is my personal preference.
Other than that, Proxmox looked like an attractive replacement for my current and very old solution.
Thanks for your feedback here, but I cannot see the benefits of such a quarantine - maybe you can go into details about such a configuration.
Outgoing: if a message is too big, the internal mail server shoult reject it and the user knows immediately that it does not work and he has to send a smaller one. moving the message to a quarantine make no sense for me.?
incoming: if a message is addressed to an valid user, why do you NOT want to give him the message directly, why do you want to quarantine?
First of all, the message size limit seems to apply equally to incoming and outgoing email, which means I can't limit outgoing without limiting incoming.
But, for outgoing messages: I think foremost is that receiving servers have so many different size limits that a "one size fits all" route is unreasonable. For example, I think Yahoo and AOL have a 5MB limit, and I think GMail has a 10MB. We often (don't ask why) send large PPT files between sister subsidiaries where there is no size limit but the "ease-of-use to problem ratio" gets bad enough that 50MB can be a hard limit. So, when sending to yahoo, I want to reject at 5MB. For gmail, reject at 10MB. For subsidiaries, reject at 50MB. For all others quarantine at 20MB.
Incoming: reject at 100MB.
I know some administrators reject everything at some small number (except their own accounts, or course). But I work for a company with a very liberal view of acceptable file sizes. For us, the main reason to reject messages it to avoid sending messages that are assured of rejection.