Size limit leads to rejection instead of moderation
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I have a size limit on postings to my mailing lists so that I can check and decide whether to approve or reject big postings. That is, they go to the moderation approval queue.
However, a list has started to reject messages back to the sender, instead of putting them in the moderation queue. This is new, unexpected and unwanted behavior.
I thought some list parameter may have been changed, but I have looked through the setting pages and I can't find where or what.
How can I restore the desired behavior, that big messages are put in the moderation queue, and not automatically rejected?
Thomas Gramstad
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On 5/31/23 14:55, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
The size limit, General Options -> max_message_size will only result in a message being held. These messages are being rejected for some other reason. Check Mailman's vette log and/or the rejected message for the reason.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 02:01:35 +0900 From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Postfix has TWO such limits: message_size_limit and mailbox_size_limit.
They're both set in main.cf, which is usually found in /etc/postfix.
HTH, RT
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On 5/31/23 14:55, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
The size limit, General Options -> max_message_size will only result in a message being held. These messages are being rejected for some other reason. Check Mailman's vette log and/or the rejected message for the reason.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 02:01:35 +0900 From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Postfix has TWO such limits: message_size_limit and mailbox_size_limit.
They're both set in main.cf, which is usually found in /etc/postfix.
HTH, RT
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Mark Sapiro
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Richard
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Stephen J. Turnbull
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Thomas Gramstad