[Mimedefang] Error on huge (~180mb) e-mail

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Jul 26 12:38:01 EDT 2002


On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Nate Carlson wrote:

> I've got my timeouts set to really long periods (200min), and set up
> Mimedefang not to run spamassassin across anything larger than 64k, and no
> virus scanning on attachments larger than 5mb. Anyone have an idea what
> this error could be?

180 MB is simply unreasonable.  Even transferring that amount of data via
milter and parsing it with MIME::Tools will cause one end or the other
to time out.

There is simply no way to handle such large messages with MIMEDefang.

Regards,

David.




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