Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Antonio Leding
I have to admit that when I first saw this, it was also a bit confusing as I was equating this with typical packet and session timeouts at the network level. What helped me better understand this was the phrase “one byte at a time” and then reading up on things like Slow Loris that Viktor inc

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On 15 Jul 2021, at 10:41 am, post...@ptld.com wrote: > > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for receiving > a remote SMTP client request." The amount of time that smtpd(8) is willing to wait for a network write to write some data when writing a command-response, or

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Wietse Venema
post...@ptld.com: > >> this limits how long the Postfix SMTP server will wait for an > >> underlying network write operation to complete. > > > You, Sir, need to get some basic education on how packet-switched > > computer networks deliver data between applications. This mailing > > list, and Post

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread postfix
this limits how long the Postfix SMTP server will wait for an underlying network write operation to complete. You, Sir, need to get some basic education on how packet-switched computer networks deliver data between applications. This mailing list, and Postfix documentation, are not the place to

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Wietse Venema
post...@ptld.com: > > Wietse Venema: > >> post...@ptld.com: > >> > > >> > smtpd_timeout: > >> > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for > >> > receiving a remote SMTP client request." > > > > When the Postfix SMTP server wants to send an SMTP server response, >

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread postfix
On 07-15-2021 12:20 pm, post...@ptld.com wrote: Wietse Venema: post...@ptld.com: > > smtpd_timeout: > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for > receiving a remote SMTP client request." When the Postfix SMTP server wants to send an SMTP server response, this

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread postfix
Wietse Venema: post...@ptld.com: > > smtpd_timeout: > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for > receiving a remote SMTP client request." When the Postfix SMTP server wants to send an SMTP server response, this limits how long the Postfix SMTP server will wai

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > post...@ptld.com: > > > > smtpd_timeout: > > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for > > receiving a remote SMTP client request." Typofix: When the Postfix SMTP server wants to send an SMTP server response, this limits how long the Postfix S

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread Wietse Venema
post...@ptld.com: > > smtpd_timeout: > "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for > receiving a remote SMTP client request." When the Postfix SMTP server wants to send an SMTP server response, this limits how long the Postfix SMTP server will wait for an underly

Re: Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread postfix
smtpd_timeout: "The time limit for sending a Postfix SMTP server response and for receiving a remote SMTP client request." Does the time a milter or policy script run count against this because it says "SMTP server response"? Or is the time postfix waits on a milter/policy reply exc

Manual Clarification

2021-07-15 Thread postfix
daemon_timeout: "How much time a Postfix daemon process may take to handle a request before it is terminated" What is "a request"? Is that the amount of time a client is connected? Is that the amount of time between command request? Other? Does "a request" cover multiple client conn