[Mimedefang] Possible Attack?

Albert E. Whale aewhale at ABS-CompTech.com
Thu May 2 07:04:36 EDT 2002


Thanks, I'll add these to my m4 config files.

Jeremy Mates wrote:

> * Albert E. Whale <aewhale at ns.abs-comptech.com> [2002-05-01T14:21-0700]:
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > > Somebody is setting the (undocumented) MaxMimeHeaderLength value in
> > > your configuration file.  These are Sendmail messages, not MIMEDefang
> > > messages.
> >
> > What is a reasonable setting for this?
>
> I generally set the following, which catch an odd message every month
> or so:
>
> define(`confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH', `16384')
> define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128')
>
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