popa3d-users - Re: Mailbox Size Limit

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:24:16 +0100
From: Tim van Erven <tve@...mig.net>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Mailbox Size Limit

On Wed, 26/02/2003 08:13 +1100, Daniel wrote:
> Hi list readers,
> 
> I recently discovered that my popa3d program (running on OpenBSD 3.2)
> will not open a mail file that is larger than 100MB.
> 
> 1 / Has any one else experienced this?
> 
> 2 / Is this by design?
> 
> 3/  If so, how can I increase this limit?

This is by design.  From params.h:

/*
 * Introduce some sane limits on the mailbox size in order to prevent
 * a single huge mailbox from stopping the entire POP service.
 */
#define MAX_MAILBOX_MESSAGES            100000
#define MAX_MAILBOX_BYTES               100000000

Change those defines if you want to increase the limit.  Try not to set
it too high, though.  It's there for a reason.

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