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

2009-10-10 by Paul Venezia

An email larger than 5MB is in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

On Oct 10, 2009, at 2:29 PM, d d wrote:

> --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Christopher <chrismcc@...>  
> wrote:
> > syslog entry than have the milter fail completely (or in one case of
> > mine crash the entire server that required pulling the power cord to
> > recover).
>
> Jesus, 18GB mail??? Our server runs on a 9GB SCSI! I don't think  
> MTAs and MUAs are coped to deal with that. I am sure something would  
> timeout somewhere. What mail client are you using?
>
> As far as crash is concerned, most OS'es would not crash on  
> something as trivial as running out of memory. Garbage collector  
> routines would kill the memory hog process. My server is on 256MB  
> and it has never crashed due to running out of memory.
>
>
>

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