"David Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the tests I've ran so far it appears that any message qmail bounces will
>be bounced in it's entirety.
Correct.
>My concern is that this could be exploited as a denial of service
>attack.
Correct. So could flooding the postmaster's mailbox. Leave lots of
free space in the queue and set up an alarm to notify you if it gets
anywhere near the limit. I see no alternative.
>I've thought of truncating the message before it's bounced but this still
>requires my server to read in the entire message. Any suggestions for how
>to handle this?
Try to deliver each message before it's received, and refuse the ones
that will bounce? :-) Set databytes to prevent accepting 100MB
messages?
-Dave
