Daniel T. Stall wrote: > On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:08 pm, Rob MacGregor said: > >> WTF are you doing accepting email's at 200 MB? There are far more >> appropriate methods of file transfer than SMTP! > > If you want to send a large file between two people who are likely to > never send each other a file again, SMTP is a quick and easy way to > do it.
You still have to draw the line somewhere. If you get ClamAV working, and keep accepting larger and larger files, something will break. Eventually the limiting factor will be disk size... if you're lucky, at the email client. If you're unlucky, at an MTA. That's why I reject at 50MB (sendmail.mc excerpt follows:) dnl Reject messages bigger than 50 MB dnl size is specified in bytes dnl 50 MB * 1024 KB/MB * 1024 B/KB = 52428800 B define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `52428800')dnl Where exactly the line is drawn is of little importance, but it's better to have a known limit with known consequences (REJECT) than an unknown limit with unknown consequences (server crash) -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
