On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong, but I think an MTA rejecting a mail because of oversized > body > doesn't have to get the whole body before rejecting the mail. Based on this, > it should be possible to reject the mail before it gets fully transfered to > the server.
Well, you can reject on the size argument, if you see one, and if it is not faked. Otherwise you have to read up to x bytes until you can drop the conncetion. But this has nothing to do with the worms, unless you want to limit your mails to max 10k :) In case of spam and virus checking you have to read at least the headers, and most likely a lot of the body (till you know the attachement type) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!
