Size limit leads to rejection instead of moderation
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
On 5/31/23 14:55, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
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.
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.
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Mark Sapiro writes:
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.
If that doesn't reveal the reason, also check your MTA logs and configuration. MTAs are usually configured to reject or discard huge messages (I think Postfix defaults to 50MB), and that would happen before getting to Mailman.
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>
If that doesn't reveal the reason, also check your MTA logs and configuration. MTAs are usually configured to reject or discard huge messages (I think Postfix defaults to 50MB), and that would happen before getting to Mailman.
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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