Chris Blaise wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Balzer
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [exim] Incoming duplicates
>>
>>
>>I can confirm this MSN behavior, one recipient here was at 
>>the end of some 8.8MB mail which must have been a 
>>specifically crafted mime/mail bomb.
>>It took SA 160s (98s w/o Bayes) to handle it, while usually 
>>mails in this size range take less than 5 seconds (including 
>>all DNS/DCC/Razor checks). 
>>Note the 98s up there, which means that they're not even 
>>waiting 2 minutes.
> 
> 
>       In my case, the messages are only about 5kB each!  
> 
>       I can confirm (based on Tony's recommendation to enable more logging
> options) that the remote server is indeed dropping the connection.
> 
>       Clearly the "problem" on my end is that the machine in question is
> only 64MB

64 MB? That implies an older, slower, memory technology, CPU, bus, etc. than 
can 
easily be purchased nowadays. Unless your platform is a PDA or cell-phone...

> and doing Sophos, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin scanning.
> 
>       Based on an issue I was seeing last month with Outlook clients and
> low timeouts, I came up with a solution to detect duplicates (using Perl and
> SQLite).  I'll just adjust that to work for this.
> 
>  Chris
> 
> 

Ouch!

... and might one expect there is a GUI and perhaps multimedia running as well?

Perhaps you should be posting on Alt.Sex.Bondage?

;-)

Bill



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