if you decide that you rather want to truncate bounce messages:
on http://www.qmail.org/top.html (very worth reading all the way down ...)
you find:
Frank DENIS wrote a patch to truncate bounce messages, on the off chance
that the user may have kept a copy of the email:
http://www.qmail.org/www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-bounce.patch
wolfgang
Also sprach Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11.09.2000:
"J.J.Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm surprise today with a test that i've do it on my smtp server (qmail
>1.03):
>I send an e-amil (1Mb) to an invalid user and qmail accept it a then,
>send a reply to the sender (another megabyte) saying that the user is
>unknown. Total = 2Mb of my lines used for no actions.
Bouncing an undeliverable mail is not "no actions". qmail treats an
undeliverable message trhe same as it treats any other mail: it does
everything it can to deliver the message *intact* to *someone*. That
message may contain the only existing copy of some valuable data...
