[Mailman-Users] Mail over limit not chopping

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Feb 23 10:26:01 CET 2005


At 6:47 PM -0600 2005-02-22, genesis wrote:

>  I have the defaults set at 40 kb. I often get my own messages stuck for
>  moderation because they are bigger than 40k. Shouldn't mailman be
>  chopping these mails from the bottom?

	Nope.  It looks at the whole message, and if it's over the limit, 
then the message gets held for moderation.

>  I use Outlook 2003.

	There's your problem.  Try turning off HTML e-mail, or using a 
different mail client.

	Or, you can increase the maximum message size that is allowed.

	Your choice.

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