On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:26:30AM -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Can procmail be used to restrict the size email a particular user
can receive? I can't do it through sendmail (I don't think) unless it
gets applied to the entire domain, which I don't want to do. Some
accounts has to be able to receive large files, but for almost everyone
else, I need to restrict it.
What I'd like to do is have system wide recipe that checks for a)
users whose email are restricted (possibly through some flat file), b)
if a match is made, a message be returned to the sender, explaining that
their message got rejected due to the size, and at the same time,
redirect the original (large) message to /dev/null, and c) on no match,
allow the message through to the final recipient.
Here's an idea (untested, of course):
# if email account isn't allowed to receive big messages,
# generate an autoreply
:0h
* > 200000
* ! ^X-Loop: some(_at_)where
* ! ? $FORMAIL -XFrom: -XSender: | $FGREP -i .restricted.accounts
| (formail -r -A "X-Loop: some(_at_)where"; \
echo "Angry SysAdmin says: Message too big!") \
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS -t
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