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Re: [milter-greylist] memory usage bug with mushroom cloud

2009-08-14 by Johann E. Klasek

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:25:44AM -0700, Christopher wrote:
> 
>  I recently updated milter-greylist from 2.1.12 (on a rhel3 server that
> had been working great for years) to 4.1.1 from EPEL on a new rhel5
> server both running sendmail.  It seems that the older 2.1.12 version
> only looked at the envelope of an email message and the newer 4.1.1
> version will also look at the data of the email (dacl ?).   I ran into a
> problem with a 18 Gig email (yes!). [..]

Nice ...
I think most of us never run into this problem because of an active (e.g.
sendmail) MaxMessageSize limitation ... no one is really interested in
to allow denial of service caused by just a single e-mail ...

Good n8,

Johann K.

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