[Mimedefang] MaxMIMEParts

[Joseph Brennan]

Jason Bertoch <jason at electronet.net> wrote:

> I've been running MD for many years with $MaxMIMEParts = 50 set in my
> filter and it finally triggered on a message yesterday.  The sender
> claims he only attached a couple of image files and a pdf, but I'm having
> someone I trust verify that claim.  In the mean time, is 50 still
> considered a sane limit?  It seems so to me.  Also, would it be possible
> for a pdf to somehow appear as multiple MIME parts?


We raised it to 100 to cover a case of a digest containing messages
with plain, html, and attachments.

If I hadn't seen that case, I'd be agreeing with you that even 50
parts is hard to believe.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology