[Mimedefang] Too Many Open Files (again?)

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matlock , Justin wrote:

> So; it wasn't a problem with MD, or Sendmail... Just the network connection
> coming to our facility.  It would be nice if sendmail had some sort of
> function like "if data doesn't flow at least this fast, abort connection",
> though.

Sendmail does have that -- see the various Timeout options.  You can also
set MaxDaemonChildren to limit the number of daemons handling SMTP
connections, but that's dangerous.  Setting MaxDaemonChildren can indeed
open you up to DoS attacks.

Regards,

David.