Thank you Mr. Moderator.
Jeff, thank you for pointing that out. The issue of such a mailbomb is a
piece of information an overworked admin installing qmail for the first
time might not consider.
Jeff Hayward wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Sam wrote:
>
> > Unless you set an incoming limit using control/databytes.
>
> Nope. Your server will still dutifully receive every byte of a 30 megabyte
> mailbomb. Qmail will stop writing to the disk when it hits the limit, and
> will eventually reject the message once the sender stops spewing. But
> still, you're gonna get the whole thing.
>
> The context of the discussion is messages on disk. Perhaps you have
> some other point you are making?
>
> -- Jeff
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Daemeon Reiydelle
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