[Mimedefang] Oversized email

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Rob Dege wrote:

> I was going through my MIMEDefang folder today, and noticed a slew of
> mdefang* directories resident from a few days ago.  Upon investigation, I
> discovered that these emails were fairly large in content.  My concern is
> that my filter is supposed to omit any message larger than 100K.  Yet, a
> `du -s` showed the messages were over 300K in size.  I can't figure out why
> the emails were processed.  DO you see any discrepancies?

The mdefang-* directories are created before your filter is ever executed,
so you have no control over their size (other than by limiting the size
of messages using Sendmail's "MaxMessageSize" option.)

--
David.