On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> <cut> From EDITME
> # This parameter sets the maximum length of the header portion of a message
> # that Exim is prepared to process. The default setting is one megabyte. There
> # is a limit in order to catch rogue mailers that might connect to your SMTP
> # port, start off a header line, and then just pump junk at it for ever. The
> # message_size_limit option would also catch this, but it may not be set.
>
> # HEADER_MAXSIZE="(1024*1024)"
> </cut>
>
> I also don't see a reason why the Exim boss says "the message_size_limit option
> would also catch this"
It would catch the case of some rogue host that starts a header line and
just pumps data for ever more.
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