Re: TICAL OwnZ JoO 6412x
Robert Manning (robertm@teklords.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:58:17 -0600
> > Anyone else getting as annoyed with this as I am?
I thought about setting O MaxMessageSize=20000 in my sendmail.cf,
but then it would probably wind up rejecting something important.
I would like to find a "safe" MaxMessageSize value to use in sendmail.cf,
(safe for these lists)
-Maybe the list maintainers will decide on a safe MaxMessageSize value
for the listserver - but then, patches and what-not would have to be
strictly ftp'd (if they exceeded the MaxMessageSize value you set).
Before someone reads this and decides to use it, though, -keep in mind
that sendmail will reject ALL messages which exceed this size before
(during the SMTP session) they arrive. -the only notice you would get that
someone had tried to send you a too-large message would be if you are
closely watching your syslog output.
It's probably an indication that sendmail needs a "MaxHeaderSize" option,
since I noticed the bomber put lost of crap in the header.
It DID have a deleterious effect on exmh - effectively putting it into
a tight loop while it attempted to deal with the header crap.
I think he was hoping to overrun a buffer somewhere.
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