On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, The Flying Hamster wrote:
> 385846T To: "Du Plessis, Yolande" <ydplessis@???>,
> &&10
> <&&10@???>, &&11 <&&11@???>,
> &&12
> <&&12@???>, &&13 <&&13@???>,
> &&15
> <&&15@???>, &&16 <&&16@???>,
> &&17
> <&&17@???>, &&2 <&&2@???>,
> &&3
> <&&3@???>, &&4 <&&4@???>,
> &&5
> <&&5@???>, &&6 <&&6@???>,
> &&7
> <&&7@???>, &&8 <&&8@???>,
> &&9
> <&&9@???>, &&a <&&a@???>,
> &&aa
> <&&aa@???>, &&AAA <&&AAA@???>,
> &&b
> <&&b@???>, &&BB <&&BB@???>,
> &&C
> <&&C@???>, &&CC <&&CC@???>,
> &&d
> <&&d@???>, &&DD <&&DD@???>,
> &&E
> --8<--
>
> and so on for about 360k....
>
> (Full headers available on request)
>
> The result of this mail hitting relay was to have a exim process try to
> grab 100M of ram... now imagine three hitting at once :(
>
> Not sure there's a fix or a config option I can tweak (reading docs now)
> but this might be something other people haven't seen.
You can put
HEADER_MAXSIZE=xxxx
in your Local/Makefile, and rebuild Exim. This value is the maximum
space allowed for all the header lines. The default is 1024*1024, that
is, one megabyte. I didn't think this was very large, so I can't quite
see where the 100M comes from. Is there perhaps some rewriting involved?
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
