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

[Jason H. <Jas...@tr...>]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:16:44PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.

Wow - that's come as a bit of a shock. What's wrong with setting up similar
timeout options to sendmail and qmail, and setting some "sane" huge timeout
for a connection - like 12hours? Even I could live with that :-)

FYI, in all the years I've run mail servers, I've never seen SMTP sessions
under Qmail or Sendmail hang on for days on end because of such
"troublesome" timeout settings...

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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417