Re: [courier-users] Re: courier tmp directory - with some diagnostic

[Sam V. <mr...@st...>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jason Haar wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 05:33:49PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > With a 64K line, your sizelimit shouldn't be more than 1MB.
> 
> We've run with a 64K Internet link for 2 years and have been
> sending/receiving multi-megabyte messages - certainly over 10Mb...
> 
> Am I reading correctly from this that Courier has a maximum time that it
> allows SMTP connections to run before it kills it? (compared with sendmail

Yes.  The maximum time limit applies to any mail source -- ESMTP, command
line, etc...

I believe that 20 minutes is more than sufficient time to receive a single
e-mail message.

You will find many fixed upper resource limits in Courier.  Overall, the
system design is oriented to limiting all sorts of potential sources of
denial of service attacks.  Allowing the system an unlimited period of
time to receive a single message is just asking for trouble.


-- 
Sam