On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 10:22 -0500, Jerry M wrote: > Two more quick questions before I get into the deeper issues.... > > 1) I noticed that the SMTP connection timeout in the default config file > is set to 360000. (6 minutes?) What was the rationale for selecting > such a long timeout as the default? I can easily reduce it. But my > fear is that if it was set to 6 minutes by the James dev team, there may > be something I'm overlooking and I possibly shouldn't change it (?). > Seems to me that 1 minute should be all any smtp client should be > allowed. Am I missing something?
We've copied the default and it seems to work fine. Rationale I'll leave to more qualified people. > 2) I don't think that my problems are large emails. Spam usually isn't > that large. And the OOMs are occurring too regularly and too often to > be due to legitimate random huge emails. However, I'm still going to > set a limit. What limit would you recommend (and how do you specify it > in config? as "K", "M", or just bytes?) You want the <maxmessagesize>10240</maxmessagesize> element in <smtpserver> / <handler>. Value is in kilobytes. 10MB is a standard value, although some organisations insist on being able to send 200MB emails. HTH Martin Filtered by 3BClean from http://www.3bview.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
