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Partial e-mail body receiving by SMTP Server? Grouppy 05-26-2008
Posted by Grouppy on May 26, 2008, 4:28 am
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 I would like to setup a SMTP server for processing of e-mails (my SMTP
server). E-mails will be forwarded from well know Internet e-mail
servers to my SMTP server, but the only fragment of body is important
for processing (like first 10kB of e-mail, not attachments just text).
The rest of the transferred e-mail, should be discarded during
communication, otherwise it could exhausted communication capacity of
my server (having 1M e-mails to be delivered in an hour).

Is the possible to make my SMTP server by protocol to communicate with
an Internet e-mail server, that my SMTP server receive just only like
first 10kB of message and the rest will be discarded and the Internet
e-mail will believe that e-mail is delivered correctly.

Any idea or protocol remarks to be considered.

Regards

Martin Rysanek

Posted by ram@pragatee.com on May 26, 2008, 7:38 am
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> I would like to setup a SMTP server for processing of e-mails (my SMTP
> server). E-mails will be forwarded from well know Internet e-mail
> servers to my SMTP server, but the only fragment of body is important
> for processing (like first 10kB of e-mail, not attachments just text).
> The rest of the transferred e-mail, should be discarded during
> communication, otherwise it could exhausted communication capacity of
> my server (having 1M e-mails to be delivered in an hour).
>
> Is the possible to make my SMTP server by protocol to communicate with
> an Internet e-mail server, that my SMTP server receive just only like
> first 10kB of message and the rest will be discarded and the Internet
> e-mail will believe that e-mail is delivered correctly.
>
> Any idea or protocol remarks to be considered.
>
> Regards
>
> Martin Rysanek

What are you to do ? Read a spamtrap mailbox ?
though that may not be relevant , but usually it is not the best idea
to write a smtp server. YMMV
Use a postfix server and pipe it to a perl script if you like it

The perl script can then read the mail upto 10k and discard the rest

Thanks
Ram


PS:
Note to Spammers: Go ahead , send me spam
ram@pragatee.com
http://pragatee.com

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