Re: [Exim] Limiting headers

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Auteur: John W Baxter
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Limiting headers
At 13:52 +0000 9/26/2001, Oliver Egginger wrote:
>I wrote:
>> Nice,
>> but how should I interpret this ?
>
>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.
>
>
>But Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
>> received_headers_max is not the _size_ but the _number_ of headers
>
>I don't understand this, sorry maybe I'am a little bit stupid.


The Makefile quotation doesn't apply to received_headers_max (which is a
count of Received: headers). The quote applies to a limit on header size
(in bytes).

Two unrelated things.

--John

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John Baxter   jwblist@???      Port Ludlow, WA, USA