Re: [Exim] Any benefits to having exim use the SIZE command?

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Author: Wakko Warner
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: 'Exim User's Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Any benefits to having exim use the SIZE command?
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> > So if the limit is set at say 5mb, and someone is pumping a 1gb file into
> > you, exim will read all of it and then refuse it? What happens if the disk
> > gets full? (I think this is what I meant)
>
> The disk doesn't get full. Exim is reading the data, but throwing it
> away, knowing that it has hit the limit.


Sounds like that could potentially be a DoS if someone decided to just start
chucking vast amounts of data at the machine from various sources. Or it
could just simply eat bandwidth.

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