[Mimedefang] limiting nested mime multiparts

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Mon Apr 5 14:31:35 EDT 2004


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.
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