[Mimedefang] limiting nested mime multiparts

[Kelsey Cummings]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:31:35PM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote:
> 
> Kelsey Cummings said:
> 
> >> The MaxMIMEParts looks only at total number of parts, not recursion
> >> depth.
> >> Clam shouldn't use huge amounts of memory for recursive parts (I can't
> >> see a reason why a 50-part message would take substantially different
> >> amounts of memory depending on recursion structure.)
> >
> > We are talking more along the lines of 1000's of parts deep by the time
> > they start to wipe out clamd.  Doh!
> >
> >> However, I'm now the maintainter of MIME-tools, so I'll consider this
> >> as a feature request. :-)
>
> I would be nice if mimedefang could grab this nativelly.

Yeah, kinda looks like David's going to work on that for us.  I'd share my
method but it's unique to the way my servers markup a bounce loop which is
where I've had the trouble.

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