Re: [Exim] size restriction

Thank you Philip, thank you Suresh - now that I see how it
works I realize it's obviously not something that I should worry
too much about.

Hana

Philip Hazel wrote:
> anyway, because the client may have lied in its SIZE= value.) Because of
> the way the SMTP protocol is defined, Exim cannot return a response until
> it has received the entire message. However, once it has hit the size
> limitation, it just sits there throwing away the incoming data until the
> end is reached.
>
> I guess this does admit a DOS attack in that it uses an SMTP incoming
> channel. However, there are plenty of similar things: a client could