Hello,
I currently have a server that is configured as a mail forwarding domain [1].
Using example.com as an example:
/etc/postfix/main.cf
virtual_alias_domains = example.com
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
/etc/postfix/virtual
u...@example.com users-gmail-addr...@gmail.com
As such, the SMTP client is used to forward the messages to each user’s
existing Gmail addresses.
I was reading more about the smtp client parameters and read about
smtp_per_record_deadline. In postconf(5) it states that the time limits are
changed and that this “...limits the impact from hostile peers that trickle
data one byte at a time”
Since my peer for the smtp client is always Gmail, this isn’t an issue for me,
but I was wondering - why does this default to “no” ? I note the warning in
postconf(5) that states for slow network connections this can cause problems
with TLS, but I am assuming that this doesn’t apply to most configurations.
Why wouldn’t I want this normally enabled ?
Thanks,
- J
Sources
[1] www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
