topic Re: Sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail

Account Not Used — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:05:54 GMT

I am wondering if anyone out there knows if ther are limitations to the size of a users sendmail account.What the default size limitation.Is it even possible how to restrict the size. Also can you restrict who has sendmsil on a Server. We are using 11.0 on K boxes and L & N boxes as well.

Re: Sendmail

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:15:47 GMT

Not sure what you mean by sendmail user account. sendmail doesn't really care about user accounts.

sendmail does have MaxMessageSize. This is the max size of a message that will be accepted by sendmail (in bound or out bound).

Checking/maintaining the size of a users mailbox is the responsibility of the delivery agent (mail, procmail) and/or something like quotas.

With sendmail, normal Unix restrictions are in effect (maxfilesize, maxlines, etc.).

Re: Sendmail

Frank Li — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:44:03 GMT

If you want to limit user account size , you can set the user quota on /var/mail/ directory on the mail server .

If you want to limint the every mail message sendmail process , you can set the option in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file :

O MaxMessageSize=1000000 // limited to 1MB

then restart your sendmail daemon.

Rgds.
Frank.

Re: Sendmail

Account Not Used — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:48:37 GMT

Thanks Frank that's what I was looking for. Limiting the qoutas on user/sendmail accounts.That seems to be the answer to my problem. Basicaly Anyone who has an account on
HP/UX by default has sendmail unless you disable it for the person. Once again Thanks!