Re: [Exim] Limiting headers

* Philip Hazel <ph10@???> [20010926 12:20]: writing on the subject 'Re: [Exim] Limiting headers'
| 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.

Now I feel lucky I've not had contact with such rogue MTAs. Are they in the M$ line
of production? ;-)


-Wash

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