Re: Protecting against other peoples broken mailers

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Piete Brooks
CC: Chris Thompson, m.hampson, exim-users
Subject: Re: Protecting against other peoples broken mailers
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:

> >> 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 !


Don't you mean "understand ESMTP"? It does. Not very much, but it does
understand the SIZE option on MAIL FROM. Doesn't help much if the far
end doesn't talk ESMTP. :-(

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