I finally had to turn procmail off last night so I could get some sleep.
This morning I added this line in sendmail.cf
O MaxMessageSize=10000000
to allow reasonably size messages through (I pretty regularly get some 5 -
7MB messages).
I also added the person sending this message email address to my
/etc/mail/access file
name(_at_)domain(_dot_)com 550 Contact Webmaster Immediately at
preeper(_at_)cts(_dot_)com
I have also emailed the person with info on an ftp account they can use,
but it's a holiday weekend and I doubt I'll get a response. My real
problem is the outgoing mail server at their site that keeps trying to send
this huge message.
I ran newaccess and restarted sendmail with a killall -1 sendmail and
turned procmail back on and this message still seems to be getting
processed by procmail. The sending server keeps trying I assume because it
never finished successfully sending it (gee thanks).
I have procmail set as my local delivery agent in sendmail.cf like this
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsfSDFMAh5:/|qmn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -a $h -d $u
Running sendmail 8.9.2 and procmail 3.11pre7 (I'm going to try and
upgrade to both sendmail 8.9.3 and procmail 3.13.1 this weekend) on a
FreeBSD 2.2.8-Stable system.
I now have two questions (with procmail turned off again). I read
somewhere there is a procmail_mailer_max flag that can possibly be used
with sendmail.
1) Can I somehow modify my sendmail setting just above to include this
option and if so how?
2) Since I know who this message is going to and who it is from, is there
an example of an rc file somewhere that will allow me to check for any
messages to this user and from the sender and if it is found, then skip all
the other rc files completely and just deliver the messag? I'm guessing
all the processing of the rc files is probably where the system is
crashing? At least this way I can stop this particular message until I
upgrade everything and get it all working right.
Thanks again for the assistance.
Jerry Preeper
At 10:06 AM 5/29/99 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote:
On 28 May 1999, Jerry Preeper <preeper(_at_)cts(_dot_)com> wrote:
[...]
Anyways, I need to find a way for procmail (or sendmail) to recognize
that there is some large attachment over xMB in size and then send
that person a nice message to contact me directly and dump the email.
My big fear is that while I was able to catch who is sending it this
time, is that it might happen again at a less opportune time. And
more importantly, it needs to figure this out before it brings the
attachment into memory which is where the problem appears to be
caused.
[...]
If it's ok to you to restrict messages by total size instead of
individual attachment sizes, you might try adding something like
O MaxMessageSize=1024000
to your sendmail.cf.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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