[Mailman-Users] reject on max_message_size exceeded

[Mark Sapiro]

Carlos R. Pasqualini wrote:
>
>i cannot find any way to reject emails (coming from valid senders) which
>exceeded the maximum allowed message size.
>
>mailman currently put them on hold, but i want to instantly reject it
>with an alert to the user.


Then you need to either modify Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py as indicated in
the post you found here


>the only thing i found is:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg46813.html
>
>but i don't think that shall be good idea


Or you could implement a custom handler <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9>
to go in the pipeline prior to Hold which would do this test and
rejection.


>is there a simple/standard way of configuring this behavior?


No.

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