popa3d-users - Re: Mailbox Size Limit

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:09:45 +1100
From: "Daniel" <email@...vatecage.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Mailbox Size Limit

Thanks for that,

I've followed your instructions and it seems ok at 300MB.

(my client is happy too, cause now he can open his 135MB mailbox file ;-)

A 100MB limit seems pretty stringent to me though. Perhaps that limit was decided
upon because the author had in mind heavier loads than what I would use it for.

I setup OpenBSD systems for small companies with 10-20 users using smtp/pop etc.

Do you think in such a situation a 300MB limit is likely to cause a service disruption?

Is there any other tweak I should make when increasing this limit?

regards,

hotdiggedydog

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On 26/02/2003 at 10:24 am Tim van Erven wrote:

>> 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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