Mail: max_commands directive. The directive specifies the maximum number of commands allowed during authentication, after which the connection is closed. The default limit is 1000, which is not expected to affect any well-behaving clients, since authentication usually requires at most several commands, though will effectively stop malicious clients from flooding the server with with commands.

/*
 * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
 * Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
 */


#ifndef _NGX_PARSE_H_INCLUDED_
#define _NGX_PARSE_H_INCLUDED_


#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>


ssize_t ngx_parse_size(ngx_str_t *line);
off_t ngx_parse_offset(ngx_str_t *line);
ngx_int_t ngx_parse_time(ngx_str_t *line, ngx_uint_t is_sec);


#endif /* _NGX_PARSE_H_INCLUDED_ */