any way to reject big e-mails?

[balay]

I have a 'Member' fastmail account - and some big [legitimate] emails are taking me over my 'disk' quota limit.

Is there any way I can config my account - so that big emails [size specified by me] get rejected [and the sender notified]?


Thanks,
S/

[rmns2bseen]

Sure...go to Options> Define Rules> Rejecting Emails> Maximum size: (it will be the second line of input in the Define Rules screen).

[balay]

Ah! I use a custom sieve script - hence don't see this option!

Can you post the sieve equivalent for this?

Thanks,
S/

[rmns2bseen]

Yes... near the top of your Sieve script put the following:

if size : over xxxxxK {
  reject "Message not delivered; size over limit accepted by recipient";
  stop;
}

[balay]

I think I got it.

I saved my custom script, toggled back to the regular mode to get
the sieve equivalent of this size limit - reject.

Now I'm modifying my custom script with this addition. Wil see
how it works.

Thanks for the help
S/

[rmns2bseen]

But don't put a space between the colon and "over" I did that to keep the emoticon from showing up

[balay]

I just tested my change. It successfully rejected a test email from
a different account.

I'm all set!
S/

[DrStrabismus]

It still counts as bandwidth though.

[rmns2bseen]

Originally posted by DrStrabismus
It still counts as bandwidth though.

Crap, that's right...but it shouldn't (at least in my perfect world) That would be of benefit only when it comes to storage quotas, I guess. I think that was balay's concern, but still...a few large messages and there goes the Member account bandwidth allowance...

[priehl]

My sieve script includes:

}
if size ver 2048K {
reject "Message not delivered; size over limit accepted by recipient";
stop;

I set this because I'm in a limited bandwidth - and I still get every 5-6-7 mb collection of photos, powerpoint presentations, etc that people send me.

My conclusion is that "message" doesn't include attachments? How can that be?

[JRobert]

The message has already been accepted for your account by the time your script executes, so it's too late then to avoid the hit to your bandwidth.

balay: Yes, you can notify the sender but not undo the bandwidth hit. Even worse, note what the Sieve standard says about reject:

The optional "reject" action refuses delivery of a message by sending
back an [MDN] to the sender. It resends the message to the sender,
wrapping it in a "reject" form, noting that it was rejected by the
recipient.

I.e., you'll get dinged for the bandwidth a second time if you do this. Better to just file it to a TooBig folder which you'll examine periodically and ask senders of big messages to take you off their lists.

priehl: Try that script fragment and the headers of your large messages in the Sieve Tester. And welcome to the forums!

[ezfig]

Sieve Tester means nothing to me, sorry...I'm not a geek.

priehl, who forgot how to log on as priehl ;-)

[JRobert]

Sorry, since you included a fragment of a sieve script, I assumed you had written it and were trying to debug it. The sieve tester is a web page that provides tool for doing that: You would copy an email message (complete with headers), and your sieve script, into the appropriate places in the sieve tester, and click submit. The tester will then tell you what your sieve script would have done (discard, file to a folder, forward, etc.) with the message you presented to it. You can then adjust your script until the tester confirms that the script does what you want it to do; reject large messages, in your case, apparently, but maybe you've changed your mind about that, knowing you not only can't avoid the bandwidth hit, but will take a second hit besides.