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Re: bounce messages on message_size_limit exceeded in uucp

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 07:37:21 CDT

ram:
> n Wed, 2007-06-20 at 04:09 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > ram:
> > > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 22:36 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:50:59PM +0530, ram wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > When a message is delivered to postfix from a uucp connection and if the
> > > > > mail exceeds message_size_limit then the mail is held in the uucp
> > > > > directory forever
> >
> > Mail should never be queued indefinitely. There should be a UUCP
> > cron job that returns mail after it has been queued for more than
> > N days.
>
> I think I dont have this cron then. What do I add in the cron for
> this ?

With Taylor UUCP, there is an uustat command that can cancel jobs
older than some amount of time and notify the sender (with the
--kill-all and --notify options).

        Wietse