Re: [EXIM] smtp overflows (fwd)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Paul Mansfield
CC: Exim users mailing list
Subject: Re: [EXIM] smtp overflows (fwd)
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Paul Mansfield wrote:

> it didn't seem to crash it, but it did oddly report "too many connections"
> for a little while, but I'm reluctant to repeat the test to try and
> destroy a live machine!


I think that may be coincidence. I hope so! Exim does check incoming
SMTP commands against the size of its buffer and it should give "unknown
command" errors to commands that are too long.

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