Re: Trying to prevent large file attachments in Squirrelmail, on U8.10S, is this a PHP issue?

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:23 -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > I am using PHP5 on Ubuntu 8.10 Server, it is being used by Apache and > Squirrelmail. I have tried setting the upload_max_filesize in the > /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file, but it only seems to apply after I > upload the file. My goal is to prevent remote Squirrelmail users from > attaching large files to the emails they are drafting. They have slow > connections, and uploading a large file would effectively hang them. > > > Here is my question originally posted to the Ubuntu Forum (before I > began understand it was possibly a PHP issue): > > > 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. > > Any suggestions on how to get the file attaching process to abort > before it uploads the entire 500MB file? > > thanks! > You could look at amending the form that is shown on the client machines browser, and set a size there, although the browser may only use it as a suggestion rather than enforce it. Maybe Squirrelmail already has such a feature? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk