[H-GEN] Sendmail (or mail in general) multiple choice question

[Bruce Campbell]

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Michael Anthon wrote:

> If I set an upper size limit on messages and someone tries to send me a
> message bigger than that, when does the message get rejected?
> 	a) at the mailer negotiation phase

If using ESMTP, when the message From and To is attempted (the transaction
usually goes:

MAIL FROM: <jo.blow at somewhere> SIZE=3463456

This is dependent on the remote mta though.

> 	b) once it has received the whole message

If the remote mailer doesn't hand over the SIZE parameter, here.

> 	c) once it has received greater than the allowable amount of
> data for that message

Sendmail, at least, will never drop a message short of diskspace/hardware
failure.

> 	d) other, please specify
> 
> Obviously, I would prefer it was option a, but I can't figure it out....

This is based on sendmail/qmail/exim/smail settings, other is... well,
does it follow any recognisable standard? ;)

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Bruce.