From: Alexey Lobanov (A.Lobanovcro-rct.ru)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 01:09:18 CST

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Hello.

01.02.2008 02:15, Puthick Hok пишет:

> Hi,
>
> I have a postfix mail server running 2.1. Recently, there has been an
> increasing number of incoming messages whose sizes are far larger than
> the message_size_limit. Because the mail server does not know the size
> of the message in advance, it has to receive it before rejecting it.

Actually, an intelligent ESMTP client must stop large messages even
before RCPT TO phase, in accordance with SIZE word in ESMTP server
reply. An example:

Jan 31 16:18:21 kiska postfix/smtp[23172]: 71F4D101C4: to=<*bti.co.ru>,
relay=relay.bti.co.ru[195.68.151.228]:25, delay=10,
delays=3.6/0.01/6.5/0, dsn=5.3.4, status=bounced (message size 8844538
exceeds size limit 6291456 of
server relay.bti.co.ru[195.68.151.228])

250-relay.bti.co.ru Hello [83.136.242.126]
250-TURN
250-ATRN
250-SIZE 6291456

But it is obvious that your case the SMTP client is not intelligent.

> Can postfix stop receiving the message once the size of message it has
> received from the sending server is over the message_size_limit? Or
> can postfix tell who the sending recipient is?

I believe, yes. Just add the misbehaving client to "debug_peer_list" to
log all SMTP commands.

Alexey

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