Size of message from maildroprc

How can I determine the size of an email in maildroprc
so I can avoid trying to run large messages thru any
spam filters (really bogs the system down for little
to no gain) ?

--markc

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Mark Constable writes:

> How can I determine the size of an email in maildroprc
> so I can avoid trying to run large messages thru any
> spam filters (really bogs the system down for little
> to no gain) ?

SIZE -- see maildropfilter.


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On Friday 30 March 2007 21:12, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > How can I determine the size of an email in
maildroprc
> > so I can avoid trying to run large messages thru
any
> > spam filters (really bogs the system down for
little
> > to no gain) ?
> 
> SIZE -- see maildropfilter.

Thanks yet again Sam. I'm not sure why simple and obvious
Google searches do not often bring up links to your docs.

Example maildroprc snippet for googleble mail archives;
 
if ($SIZE < 100000)
{
  log "less than 100k, go ahead and filter"
}

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:03PM +1000, Mark Constable
wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 21:12, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > How can I determine the size of an email in
maildroprc
> > > so I can avoid trying to run large messages
thru any
> > > spam filters (really bogs the system down for
little
> > > to no gain) ?
> > 
> > SIZE -- see maildropfilter.
> 
> Thanks yet again Sam. I'm not sure why simple and
obvious
> Google searches do not often bring up links to your
docs.

Mail archives, second.
Google, third.
Mailing list, fourth.

MANPAGES, FIRST!

I don't know how many of my responses in this mailing list
consist
entirely of "man maildrop" or "man
maildropfilter" and then "search
$OBVIOUSKEYWORD".

RTFM, folks.

-- 
Devin

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On Friday 30 March 2007 23:57, Devin Rubia wrote:
> > Thanks yet again Sam. I'm not sure why simple and
obvious
> > Google searches do not often bring up links to
your docs.
> 
> Mail archives, second.
> Google, third.
> Mailing list, fourth.
> 
> MANPAGES, FIRST!

You presume I have manpages on my servers. I don't.

It's the 21st century and it would be more productive
to suggest that Sam get rid of the stupid frames at
courier-mta.org so Google could get at all that
valuable content.

--markc

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:20:45AM +1000, Mark Constable
wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 23:57, Devin Rubia wrote:
> > > Thanks yet again Sam. I'm not sure why simple
and obvious
> > > Google searches do not often bring up links
to your docs.
> > 
> > Mail archives, second.
> > Google, third.
> > Mailing list, fourth.
> > 
> > MANPAGES, FIRST!
> 
> You presume I have manpages on my servers. I don't.
> 
> It's the 21st century and it would be more productive
> to suggest that Sam get rid of the stupid frames at
> courier-mta.org so Google could get at all that
> valuable content.

What, you think Google is stupid?

The very first hit for "maildrop" on Google is
Maildrop's homepage.
The very first hit for "maildropfilter" on Google
is the manpage for
maildropfilter.

Just for giggles, I fired up google in an 8 year old version
of lynx
and I was still able to search for maildrop, bring up the
webpage, and
surf to the documentation.

$ lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.2rel.1 (01 Jun 1999)

Sam was even good enough to provide this snippet.

---
<noframes>
    <body text="#000000"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EF"
vlink="#51188E"
    alink="#FF0000">
    <p><a href="header.html">Enter
without frame support</a>.</p>
    </body>
</noframes>
---

Quit your whining.

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Mark Constable wrote, on 30. mar 2007 17:35:

> Offlist

Oh no. List stuff gets sent to the list, that's where *you*
put it 
first, moaning for succor.

>> Your well reconsidered reply might (to your own
advantage) have been: 
>> "You presume I have manpages on my servers. I
don't. Please advise me 
>> how to obtain them".
> 
> But I don't want them. 99.99% of the time every bit
> of info I ever need comes via Google.
> 
> Okay, I exaggerate... 95+%
> 
>> Everybody who installs Sam's stuff, either through
rpms or source code, 
>> gets man pages. *Unix/Linux people can not work
without man pages* - or 
>> derived html stuff.
> 
> I first installed courier 6 or 7 years ago. I spent
> required manpage reading time at that point but I
> can't remember everything, and it's not realistic
> to have to trawl thru them all over again every year
> or so to find what's different.
> 
>> Why do you not have them? 
> 
> I use my own trimmed down Debian distro on a variety
> of servers, some are semi-embedded, rather than hop
> around servers and realize I do or do not have man
> pages available I just eliminated them altogether to
> save myself confusion as to whether they will be
> available or not.
> 
> Over the years I have just naturally drifted towards
> using google for everything because the quality of
> the returned results is, generally, so much higher.
> Man pages rarely have examples and hardly ever explain
> WHY some command, or aspect of a command, should be
> used.
> 
> FWIW... I guess.

Yep.

--Tonni

-- 
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Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl

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Mark Constable writes:

> On Friday 30 March 2007 23:57, Devin Rubia wrote:
>> > Thanks yet again Sam. I'm not sure why simple
and obvious
>> > Google searches do not often bring up links to
your docs.
>> 
>> Mail archives, second.
>> Google, third.
>> Mailing list, fourth.
>> 
>> MANPAGES, FIRST!
> 
> You presume I have manpages on my servers. I don't.
> 
> It's the 21st century and it would be more productive
> to suggest that Sam get rid of the stupid frames at
> courier-mta.org so Google could get at all that
> valuable content.

Well, I can assure you that Google has no problems
whatsoever with accessing 
and indexing all of courier-mta.org.  I'd bet that you
simply needed to 
modify your search to explicitly include
"site:www.courier-mta.org" in your 
search string.

But it's an amazing coincidence that I'm almost finished
rebuilding the 
entire site and remove all frames, as part of rebuilding all
documentation 
using a new Docbook XML 4.4 stylesheet.  I've been working
on it for about 
two weeks now.

But your message was not a complete waste.  You reminded me
to add some code 
to make sure that all old URLs still land at the same page.


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