[Mimedefang] problems processing mails with many attachements

[Dirk Mueller]

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

> Limiting memory consumption to 30MB should be safe.  I have never yet
> seen a legitimate e-mail which caused the Perl process's virtual
> memory exceed about 20MB (on x86/Linux).

okay. People do strange things here though. Like sending .iso images via 
email ;-)

> I will look at modifying MIME::Tools to make it quit after a
> configurable number of parts has been discovered.  I do not think a
> legitimate e-mail should have more than 50 or so attachments...

Right. Alternatively it would be cool if filter_begin() would allow 
customizing that behaviour. :)


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Dirk (received 513 mails today)