[Gllug] OT Mail relay configuration issue

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Mar 5 15:13:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:11:42PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> I fall somewhere between the two. Yes, 100K is excessive, but 4K is probably
> too small. It's sometimes informative to have more than just the headers.
> I'd probably put the cutoff at around 15-20K or so. Just checking some of
> our previous bounces here, I've found one with 11K of useful header info
> (it eventually failed due to too many hops), and had it been truncated
> at 4K, we wouldn't have been able to diagnose and fix the problem.

Now that's an argument that I can accept.  100K is just the default
option and I smell an ignorant bastard wasting my time.

-- 
Bruce

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votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin
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