Re: DBmail webmail app

> DBmail isn't a email system.  It's an imap/pop server.
> 
> If you want to control this then configure it in your
mail server, like 
> postfix....

Again - saving drafts bypasses the MTA - and I think it
would be a good 
thing for DBMail to be able to catch these attempts like
this to bypass 
the limits set by the sys admin...

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Charles Marcus wrote:
>> DBmail isn't a email system.  It's an imap/pop
server.
>>
>> If you want to control this then configure it in
your mail server,
>> like postfix....
> 
> Again - saving drafts bypasses the MTA - and I think it
would be a good
> thing for DBMail to be able to catch these attempts
like this to bypass
> the limits set by the sys admin...

The size of any message (and attachment in the near future)
is known
whenever it passes through dbmail. Adding a couple of
runtime options
delimiting their size in the config file is trivial.

Of course, we'd also have to deal with the fallout like
handling max
messagesize exceptions and how to communicate it back to the
console,
lmtp, or imap clients. That would require some special
attention.


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Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
>> DBmail isn't a email system.  It's an imap/pop
server.
>>
>> If you want to control this then configure it in
your mail server, 
>> like postfix....
> 
> Again - saving drafts bypasses the MTA - and I think it
would be a good 
> thing for DBMail to be able to catch these attempts
like this to bypass 
> the limits set by the sys admin...
> 

That's an interesting practice that I've not seen.

However, part of this abuse of email has been addressed by
limiting the size of 
the mailbox.

IMO the users should be told to refrain from such practices.
 Failing to do that 
you could always delete Drafts after 30 days as a practice.

But I'm not sure where you are going with this -- after all,
they won't be able 
to send their drafts anywhere so it's not really email and I
am assuming that a 
draft should have a "reasonable" lifetime before
it's either delivered or removed.

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