Maximum attachments

[Julian Field]

It has 137 lines starting "--", 41 of which end in "--". So the number of
attachments is at least 137-41=96 and I might have got my MIME section
counting a bit wrong. Looks very close to 100 to me.

At 16:53 13/05/2004, you wrote:
>I'm running MailScanner 4.30.3 and I've just had my first problem with the
>"Maximum Attachments Per Message" setting.  My MailScanner.conf file has
>this value set to 100.  A person just complained about blocked content (see
>the attached message) and, while I can see 54 discrete MIME boundaries,
>it's still nowhere near the maximum of 100.  Here are the MailScanner
>logfile entries:
>
>May 12 23:01:25 alpha MailScanner[305112]: Too many attachments in
>i4D31Ju000038
>3940
>May 12 23:01:26 alpha MailScanner[305112]: Saved entire message to
>/usr1/quarant
>ine/20040512/i4D31Ju0000383940
>
>Why was this message blocked?  THanks in advance.
>
>
>Don Newcomer
>Senior Manager, Systems
>Infrastructure Systems Department
>Library and Information Services
>Dickinson College
>P.O. Box 1773
>Carlisle, PA  17013
>717-245-1256 (Voice)
>717-245-1690 (FAX)
>newcomer at dickinson.edu
>
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