[Mailman-Users] Attachment size limit (or max_message_size)

[Scott Race]

A few final questions to figure this out:

1.  Has this always been the design?  The client seems to think that on his old server the message would get kicked back before hitting the moderation queue. If so that's cool, just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

2.  To make sure I understand - if we were to use GLOBAL_PIPELINE directives in mm_cfg.py to re-order, would that mean that email addresses not signed up and confirmed as members would be able to send to the list and have it go into the modertor's queue?

3.  With a list of thousands of users, a 6MB attachment would kill our bandwidth if it went out.  If we must moderate, is there any other solution other than the moderator looking at each email and deciding to kick it back due to size?  Postfix limiting (ungraceful, I know)?

Thanks!
Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:28 AM
To: Scott Race; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachment size limit (or max_message_size)

Scott Race wrote:

>Ah, I see what's going on. So for the particular lists were working on, all messages to the list are held for moderation.  So, it seems clicking "Accept" will accept the message, even if the message size is too big.


Yes, and further, if the messages are held because the poster is
moderated, this hold is applied before any of the miscellaneous holds,
so all you know is it is a post from a moderated member, and if you
approve it, it is approved even if too big.


>We recently (4 months ago) upgraded from Debian 4 to RHEL5. On the previous box, I believe we were running Mailman 2.1.12 (not sure), messages over the max_message_size limit would not hit the list and bounce back to the user with that message.


Without source modifications, the message would still be held, not
rejected, but the user would be notified if respond_to_post_requests
is Yes.
	

>The company I'm working with is hoping the system can kick back messages over the max_message_size before it hits moderation.  Is that possible?
>
>Would adding GLOBAL_PIPELINE directives to mm_cfg.py get that done?


Yes, you could reorder the pipeline to put Hold ahead of Moderate, but
the downside of this is a non-member post could be held for one of the
miscellaneous hold reasons and the moderator may not realize it's a
non-member post.

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