Re: Protecting against other peoples broken mailers

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Piete Brooks
CC: Chris Thompson, m.hampson, exim-users
Subject: Re: Protecting against other peoples broken mailers
} >> We limit message size to 4 Mbytes. Although its an arbitary figure, its
} >> probably best to use ftp for files bigger that this.
} > Bear in mind that although setting message_size_limit in Exim will stop the
} > input/<msgid>-D files getting (much) bigger than that, the accepting process
} > still has to suck the remainder across the wire before giving a 552 error,
}
} Sounds like you want exim to talk ESMTP !

Definitely - except that a truly broken mailer would do that wrong as
well!

    Nigel.


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