Hi Bill,
Shameful admission : I didn't realise that a sending machine using EHLO
could declare the message size in the 'Mail from:'.
I have been able to replicate the log behaviour using Telnet using an
example in RFC1870.
After issuing a EHLO command;
>> mail from: SIZE=234567895
<< 452 4.
[google ignoring SIZE in EHLO response]
I believe that initially Postfix has done that as well, because the
number as announced might not be parseable with system library
routines (for example bigger than 4GB, at a time that Postfix
typically ran on 32-bit systems).
Later, Postfix got its own off
On 20 Jun 2016, at 20:54, Mick wrote:
I take it from your response (and noting the log 'reject: MAIL from')
that the sender just piled in over 10MB of data at the 'mail from:'
stage.
Unlikely, since it was a Google machine and that's not how size
restriction works. In this case the session s
Hi Wietse,
On 21/06/2016 01:21, Wietse Venema wrote:
Mick:
Hi,
While checking the mail log yesterday morning, I noticed that Postfix
didn't log the sender or recipient when it rejected a message due to
exceeding the message_size _limit. I'd be interested to know if this is
the intended behav
Mick:
> Hi,
>
> While checking the mail log yesterday morning, I noticed that Postfix
> didn't log the sender or recipient when it rejected a message due to
> exceeding the message_size _limit. I'd be interested to know if this is
> the intended behaviour. I'm running Debianized Postfix 3.1.0
Hi,
While checking the mail log yesterday morning, I noticed that Postfix
didn't log the sender or recipient when it rejected a message due to
exceeding the message_size _limit. I'd be interested to know if this is
the intended behaviour. I'm running Debianized Postfix 3.1.0.
Log excerpt;
