Trying to prevent large file attachments in Squirrelmail, on U8.10S.

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Xn Nooby wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to prevent Squirrelmail users from uploading large
>>>> files to a server running Squirrelmail?  My testing seems to indicate
>>>> that the attachment size limits enforced by Squirrelmail take place
>>>> *after* the file has been uploaded - at which time Squirrelmail aborts
>>>> the entire message. I will have some remote users, and I do not want
>>>> them to be able to upload files that are over a limit (say 10MB).
>>>>
>>>> If a remote user tries to attach a 500MB attachment to their email, I
>>>> don't want them to upload the entire 500MB file, only to then have SM
>>>> abort the message.  I want it to fail immediately, or after the 10MB
>>>> limit has been reached.
>>>>
>>>> I though there was a way to do this in Apache or PHP, but have been
>>>> unable to find it.  I am running Ubuntu Server 8.10 with Apache,
>>>> Postfix, Dovecot, and Squirrelmail.
Have you tried Apache's LimitRequestBody directive? It can be set per
directory.

Sarunas
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