crash after out of memory?

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Mar 30 12:41:09 UTC 2016


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

>    The user has an email that contains a huge >100MB header line?

I hope not :)
I "solved" the problem by setting the vsz_limit_default to 1G

>    I think there's something in here that could use fixing. It shouldn't be
>    that easy to make Dovecot use up that much memory. Some istream buffer
>    size limit is missing somewhere I think.. The attached patch might help?

Is it in the official tree? I'm using the autobuilds nowadays. Could
tell you tomorrow!

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