[fetchmail]Rejecting large messages when using "sendmail" for delivery

[Rob MacGregor]

On 28/06/05, Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:
>  Why not look at the anti-spam codes?
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>  I'm looking.  I set "-Z 69", but still I get this:

No, not return codes, but MTA error codes.  You need to be passing the
email via SMTP.
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>  I don't follow where you are going with this?  The calling user is a
> virtual user, and all accounts are run under a virtual mail user.  It's
> basically an ISP setup here where we run mail for relatively unknown and
> untrusted users and allow them to pickup mail from other email accounts i=
f
> they want to.
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>  The desired behaviour here is to bounce the large message...

Which you can't do.  You can either keep repolling it, or delete it.=20
Or, you can either increase the local limit to match the server you're
pulling from (or talk to them about lowering theirs).
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>  It's not realistic for me to try and educate the rest of the world on go=
od
> mail policy.  Working out how to bounce large messages instead of chewing
> bandwidth would seem to be part of the solution though?

Well, you could always provide the project with a patch :-)  All I can
do is tell you that fetchmail doesn't support the behaviour you're
looking for.

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Rob MacGregor
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