[Gllug] OT Mail relay configuration issue

Pete Ryland pdr at createservices.com
Fri Mar 5 15:16:48 UTC 2004


On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:56:09PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Now, I think this is rubbish.  I don't think I've ever seen a message
> with anything like 100K of data in the headers and I don't think it's
> worth bouncing entire viruses around the internet just to cater for the
> rare event that one might turn up.  I think I'm dealing with an ignorant
> MCSE who doesn't have a clue about configuring Exim but your views on
> this subject are welcome.

To be fair, his/her argument is sane enough, but you're quite right though
that 4k is plenty.  I'd put it down to operator laziness.

Pete
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