Re: [Exim] large SMTP banners and callouts appear to have pr…

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Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
CC: wayne, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] large SMTP banners and callouts appear to have problems.
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> I agree with your findings. I note that transports/smtp.c, which is the
> code used for sending e-mail, has a buffer of 4096 bytes. I suggest you
> change the callout code so that they are in sync.


Problem noted.

> I can't see anything in the RFC limiting the number of lines in a
> multiline response.


I don't think there is, but common sense says there has to be some
limit, if only to prevent DoS attacks.

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