From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 14:38:45 CDT

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Sven Hoexter:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:53:53PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> > At 11:12 AM 7/1/03 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > >message for user1 that's say over 100kb, it should return the message to
> > >the sender as undeliverable. But, again, this is only for certain users,
> > >not all.
> >
> > Postfix does not support per-user limits on mail size, only a single global
> > limit per postfix instance is available.
> > If your OS supports user quotas perhaps you could use that.

> Hm but it won't do what he wants. Disk quoats take effect after the mail
> got accepted for delivery and it will affect only the complete mailbox and
> not only the single mail.

Well right, and how would you expect all this to work?

1) There is no requirement that an SMTP client provides the message
size BEFORE sending the message content.

2) What about MULTI-recipient email where different recipients have
different size requirements?

        Wietse

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