I have a user who has been getting mail from a vendor with about 400 to
500 addresses listed in the To: field. From what I can tell by looking
at the RFCs, this might be outrageously stupid but it is still valid
SMTP. When SM tries to parse a mailbox containing such a pathological
message, the PHP DoS timeout kicks in and they get a message about not
being able to access the folder. I've bumped up the default PHP timeout
to 60 seconds but the mail still triggers the timeout. When these kind
of messages are dumped into the INBOX, the effect is that the user is
locked out of SM completely. 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to gracefully handle these
kind of mails? I could configure the MTA to reject mail with > <some
arbitrary number> of accounts listed in the To: field, but I don't want
to go against the RFCs. 





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