[Mimedefang] problems processing mails with many attachements

[Dirk Mueller]

On Son, 06 Okt 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:

> This mail will never make it through.  MIME::Tools, which decodes the
> MIME messages, cannot handle a message with that many parts.

Argh. is there some kind of check possible before it starts decoding it ?
like grepping for the number of mime boundary lines?

> Using "-R 30000 -M 30000" should prevent the machine from dying while still
> allowing plenty of room for legitimate messages.

but it will now block messages that are bigger as something like 1 MB 
(because MIME::Tools keeps all of it in memory) ?

> > can I make sendmail reject mails which timeout in the 
> > milter with a 5xx code so it doesn't come back?
> I will consider this option for the next release.

Thanks!


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Dirk (received 422 mails today)