[Mimedefang] Timeout on large attachments

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Mickey Hill wrote:

> This particular mail server is owned by a small ISP that caters to local
> businesses only and (theoretically) places no restrictions on message
> length, mailbox size, etc.  One customer, the local print shop,
> regularly receives large graphics files as large as 100 MB or more, and
> no other ISP will give them an unlimited mailbox.  We like paying
> customers :)

Ouch!  :-)

Is it worth modifying the C code to put a limit on the size of messages
passed to the Perl code?  In other words, some command-line parameter
which says "If message is > X MB, just accept it"?  Or is this
dangerous feature-creep? :-)

Regards,

David.