On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Oliver Egginger wrote:
> The Makefile says:
>
> # 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.
It is referring to the build-time parameter HEADER_MAXSIZE.
> But Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> > received_headers_max is not the _size_ but the _number_ of headers
received_headers_max is an entirely different runtime option.
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