On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Steven Clarke wrote:
> I think that you are misreading the code.
Almost certainly! I just glanced at it, and in any case, my brain hasn't
yet recovered from the flu I had over the holiday. :-(
> It seems to be connecting to the
> mail server, starting a SMTP session and then sending a 1Mb header line.
> This doesn't seem to cause a DoS to Exim 3.12 so it looks like the changes
> between 3.10 and 3.11 to improve memory allocation for headers worked.
Oh, right. Yes, those changes were specifically aimed at fixing this
problem. Good. I like it when I can say "already fixed" :-)
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