Author: John W Baxter Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: Exim segfault, user DoS (was Re: [Exim] system filter limits)
At 10:17 +0100 7/24/2001, Philip Hazel wrote: >Clearly it is the apparent huge
>size of the .forward file that is a problem. (Remember, a program cannot
>tell whether the file it is reading is sparse or not - that's the whole
>point of sparseness.) So what I will do is to implement a new option for
>forwardfile, called max_file_size, and default it to 1Mb.
>
>But not now. I'm just off to run the Exim course.
>
>Actually, I'm not sure if this is worth retrofitting to Exim 3, but I'll
>do something for Exim 4.
I would say "It doesn't, on its own, deserve an Exim 3 release. But if
another 3 release is needed anyhow and it's not too much work, it should be
in that release."
But our users can't install their own .forward files, so we're already
pretty well insulated.
