Incoming dir size?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Gottschalk, David wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I recently set my /mailscanner/incoming directory to be mounted in memory. One thing I didn't think about before I allocated size is what if a email comes in that is bigger than this filesystem size in memory? Currently, I have 512mb mounted in memory. The size of data on it right now is very small, but I'm afraid it could cause problems if someone sent a massive file (had someone recently send a 1.4gig file via email, no, I'm not joking, it got quarantined though cause it was over max size allowed). I can't find any information on this, so any input would be appreciated.

Even with 2 GB you can run into trouble. I did not store the samples I 
have seen bringing down a Barracuda down as it picked apart a message and 
ended up with more then 2 GB of work files. (OCR scanning will do that to 
you.)

I know it was a reasonably large PDF files containing lot's of images 
which it tried to pick apart into uncompressed raw bitmaps.

Hugo.

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