Hi Laurent,

>Antonio Paulo Salgado Forster wrote:
>
>> I'd to set a smtp server that would have the following behavior:
>>
>> - during daytime, only accepts messages with (for example) no more
>> than 5 Mb;
>> - during the night, will accepts messages with no more than 10 Mb;
>
>Here are two problems I'm seeing on such configuration :
>
> - If you talk to another server who has 12 hour time zone offset with
>yours and a symetric configuration, the mail will ever bounce
>temporary.

AFAIK, when the mail server outputs a temporary error message, it wont say
what time it should try again. The server will wait X hours (or minutes)
and try again, so the timezone doesnt matter. Please forgive me if I'm
wrong.

>
> - If a non-ESMTP server talk you, (or a ESMTP server who doesn't use
>the SIZE extension), you will receive the entier big mails and reject
>them with a temporary failure. The server will retry to send again and
>again (ervery 10 minutes, for example) until the right time.

I would have the problem with non-ESMTP servers when I use the size limit
anyway, but you pointed a very good issue when the error message is
temporary. It would be worse if the size is not allowed anytime. Any ideas
to correct this?

Thanks for the comments.

Forster

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