On 10/30/2015 10:04 AM, Jeroen Scheerder wrote:
> L.S.,
> 
> I ran into a little something.  I have separated my main smtp service 
> (tcp/25) and smtps/submission services (tcp/465, tcp/587).
> The smtps/submission services have a few extra virtual aliases, but they also 
> (don't ask) add a header:
> 
>       % cat on2it-header-checks
>       /^Received:/i PREPEND X-ON2IT-Claimer: This message may contain 
> confidential or privileged information.
> 
>                                               (Since you probably do wonder 
> anyway, this is how I preemptively struck out
>                                                against having to insert 
> foolish disclaimers into message bodies.)
> 
> My message_size_limit is set:
> 
>       message_size_limit = 10240000
> 
> The main smtp as well as the smtps/submission services report that size after 
> the EHLO:
> 
>       250-SIZE 10240000
> 
> Sane clients respect that size limit and refuse to send messages exceeding 
> it.  But since the message size will grow (by 82 bytes) after prepending a 
> header, it is entirely possible that this will push a message slightly below 
> the limit over the edge.  Such a message will get sent by the client, only to 
> receive a "5.3.4 Error: message file too big" (and the cleanup process logs 
> "queue file size limit exceeded").
> 
> This has two disadvantageous consequences:
> 
>       a) Clients send (large) messages in vain
>       b) Some clients handle the SMTP error poorly (we've seen this mainly 
> for Android phones)
> 
> This got me thinking.  Would it be possible to have
> 
>       message_size_limit = 10240000
> 
> but have my smtps/submission services announce slightly less:
> 
>       250-SIZE 10239918

I think you can override the message size limit for the submission port
in master.cf:

submission inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
 -o message_size_limit=10239918

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

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