From 9ca99315813998db041799de324fd6f019d5d4f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nigel Horne Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:38:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that it's a bad idea to disable StreamMaxLength git-svn: trunk@1580 --- clamav-devel/clamav-milter/INSTALL | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/clamav-devel/clamav-milter/INSTALL b/clamav-devel/clamav-milter/INSTALL index 229abcdc8..68a58f773 100644 --- a/clamav-devel/clamav-milter/INSTALL +++ b/clamav-devel/clamav-milter/INSTALL @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ will need to wait for all connections to stop before it can reload the database after running freshclam. It is therefore important that NO timeouts in sendmail.cf are set too high or worse still turned off, otherwise clamav-milter can wait a long time, perhaps indefinately, while waiting for the system to -quieten down. +quieten down. The same goes for disabling StreamMaxLength, since receiving a +very large email to be scanned may take a long time. We advise setting +StreamMaxLength to 1M. Don't forget to rebuild sendmail.cf after modifying sendmail.mc. You will need to restart sendmail after rebuilding sendmail.cf and starting clamd and