Re: write_error_or_disk_full

[Charles Cazabon <search-web-for-address@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Dickens <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My inside server's /service/qmail-smtp/run file invoked tcpserver like 
> this:
> 
>      envuidgid qmaild \
>      softlimit -m 3000000 -f 10000000 \
>      tcpserver -v -HR \
>    ...
> 
> So, it couldn't write more than 10MB to any file due to the limit.
> 
> Now, the question is, what is the proper thing to do here ?  I want to 
> protect my servers from denial of service, but I also don't want 
> messages to disappear or hang in the queue when the rules specify that 
> the message can never be delivered.
> 
> Just for the sake of argument, say that my policy is that I will accept 
> no message larger than 10MB.  What's the "friendly" way to reject the 
> message? 

See the control/databytes file, or corresponding env var.

Charles
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