Chris Blaise wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: exim-users-bounces@???
>>[mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Christian Balzer
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 AM
>>To: exim-users@???
>>Subject: Re: [exim] Incoming duplicates
>>
>>
>>I can confirm this MSN behavior, one recipient here was at
>>the end of some 8.8MB mail which must have been a
>>specifically crafted mime/mail bomb.
>>It took SA 160s (98s w/o Bayes) to handle it, while usually
>>mails in this size range take less than 5 seconds (including
>>all DNS/DCC/Razor checks).
>>Note the 98s up there, which means that they're not even
>>waiting 2 minutes.
>
>
> In my case, the messages are only about 5kB each!
>
> I can confirm (based on Tony's recommendation to enable more logging
> options) that the remote server is indeed dropping the connection.
>
> Clearly the "problem" on my end is that the machine in question is
> only 64MB
64 MB? That implies an older, slower, memory technology, CPU, bus, etc. than can
easily be purchased nowadays. Unless your platform is a PDA or cell-phone...
> and doing Sophos, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin scanning.
>
> Based on an issue I was seeing last month with Outlook clients and
> low timeouts, I came up with a solution to detect duplicates (using Perl and
> SQLite). I'll just adjust that to work for this.
>
> Chris
>
>
Ouch!
... and might one expect there is a GUI and perhaps multimedia running as well?
Perhaps you should be posting on Alt.Sex.Bondage?
;-)
Bill