Noel Jones:
> On 12/4/2017 3:35 PM, J Doe wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I currently have a server that is configured as a mail forwarding domain
> > [1]. Using example.com as an example:
> >
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf
> > virtual_alias_domains = example.com
> > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> >
> > /etc/postfix/virtual
> > u...@example.com users-gmail-addr...@gmail.com
> >
> > As such, the SMTP client is used to forward the messages to each user?s
> > existing Gmail addresses.
> >
> > I was reading more about the smtp client parameters and read about
> > smtp_per_record_deadline. In postconf(5) it states that the time limits
> > are changed and that this ?...limits the impact from hostile peers that
> > trickle data one byte at a time?
> >
> > Since my peer for the smtp client is always Gmail, this isn?t an issue for
> > me, but I was wondering - why does this default to ?no? ? I note the
> > warning in postconf(5) that states for slow network connections this can
> > cause problems with TLS, but I am assuming that this doesn?t apply to most
> > configurations.
> >
> > Why wouldn?t I want this normally enabled ?
It's not safe to make this the Postfix default, but you're welcome
to override that if you are sure that connections will never be
slow.
Wietse
