Preventing Large Attachments 1

[sobak]

Is there anyway in GroupWise 6.5 to prevent my users from sending 100 Meg files though my E-Mail system? I know how to prevent it at the GWIA but I'm looking for a postoffice solution. I always go out to the Offiles directory and fine 100, 200 and 300 meg files out there. If I could prevent it at the PostOffice level it would be nice.

david e
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[ak8899]

Here you go:
Restricting the Size of Messages That Users Can Send


There are three levels at which you can restrict message size:

Within the Post Office

Between Post Offices

Between Domains

-----------------------------------------------------------Within the Post Office

You can use Client Options to restrict the size of messages that users can send within their local post office.

In ConsoleOne, browse to and select a Domain, Post Office, or User object.

Click Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Client Options.
Click Send > Disk Space Management.
Select User Limits.

Specify in kilobytes the largest message that users can send.

Click OK > Close to save the maximum message size setting.
-----------------------------------------------------------Between Post Offices

You can configure the POA to restrict the size of messages that it will allow to pass outside the local post office. See Restricting Message Size between Post Offices for setup instructions.


Restricting Message Size between Post Offices

You can configure the POA to restrict the size of messages that users are permitted to send outside the post office.

In ConsoleOne, click Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Link Configuration.

Link Configuration tool window

In the drop-down list, select the domain where the post office resides, then click Post Office Links.

Link Configuration tool with post office links displayed

Double-click the post office where you want to restrict message size.

Edit Post Office Link dialog box


In the Maximum Send Message Size field, specify in megabytes the size of the largest message you want users to be able to send outside the post office, then click OK.

To exit the Link Configuration tool and save your changes, click File > Exit > Yes.

ConsoleOne then notifies the POA to restart using the new maximum message size limit.

Corresponding Startup Switches You could also use the /mtpsendmax startup switch in the POA startup file to restrict message size.

POA Web Console You can view the maximum message size on the Configuration page. You can change the maximum message size for the current POA session using the Message Transfer Protocol link on the Configuration page.


-----------------------------------------------------------Between Domains

You can configure the MTA to restrict the size of messages that it will allow to pass outside the local domain. See Restricting Message Size between Domains for setup instructions.

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Restricting Message Size between Domains

You can configure the MTA to restrict the size of messages that users are permitted to send outside the domain.

In ConsoleOne, click Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Link Configuration.

Link Configuration Tool window

Double-click the domain where you want to restrict message size.

Edit Domain Link dialog box

In the Maximum Send Message Size field, specify in megabytes the size of the largest message you want users to be able to send outside the post office.

If you want to delay large messages, specify the size in megabytes for message files the MTA can process immediately in the Delay Message Size field.

If a message file exceeds the delay message size, the message file is moved into the low priority (6) message queue, where only one MTA thread is allocated to process very large messages. This arrangement allows typical messages to be processed promptly, while delaying large messages that exceed the specified size. The result is that large messages do not slow down processing of typical messages.

Click OK.

To exit the Link Configuration Tool and save your changes, click File > Exit > Yes.

ConsoleOne then notifies the MTA to restart using the new message size limits.


Hope that helps.


regards,
Alain

 

[sobak]

Alain,

COOL BEANS......Thanks I'll try it today and let you know. You've given me a lot of good information here, I can't wait to try it out...



david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*