On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:52:14PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > > > I've reviwed the MIME:Parser module but don't see a method for finding the > > depth of recursion. The existing MaxMIMEParts doesn't seem to catch this, > > or it it's supposed to, it's not working for me, even with the patched > > MIME:Parser module. > > The MaxMIMEParts looks only at total number of parts, not recursion depth. > Clam shouldn't use huge amounts of memory for recursive parts (I can't > see a reason why a 50-part message would take substantially different > amounts of memory depending on recursion structure.)
We are talking more along the lines of 1000's of parts deep by the time they start to wipe out clamd. Doh! > However, I'm now the maintainter of MIME-tools, so I'll consider this > as a feature request. :-) Cool. We hacked up a fake virus filter to filter it out before clam sees it, but hacked is the operative word. -- Kelsey Cummings - [EMAIL PROTECTED] sonic.net, inc. System Administrator 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95407 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/ Fingerprint = D5F9 667F 5D32 7347 0B79 8DB7 2B42 86B6 4E2C 3896 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
