} On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Ilya Ketris wrote:
}
} > When you have quite a few addresses in the To:
} > (some people are still sending bulk mail in such a
} > way, unfortunately) exim fails and says:
} >
} > "Header line is ridiculously overlong",
} >
} > which is different from sendmail's behaviour ("But
} > it worked for me everywhere else!"). Can we make
} > it configurable maybe.
}
} The current value is 8192 bytes. It seemed to me that any header line
} longer than that was totally absurd! I could make it configurable, but
} is that really sensible?
Is this for a single line, a single line with continuation - ie
To: a, b, c,
d, e, f
g, h ,i
or for merged headers - ie how about a message with 60 Cc lines??
In our mail bomb episode, the headers accounted for something over
100K of the message (the body was around 1K). I suppose this means I
have a preference for there being a limit on total headers :-) I am
suprised that PC mailers could reply to the message without crashing
when they had to reconstruct the headers.
More seriously, is there a really good reason for limiting this
length at all, other than possibly as a per site policy decision?
Nigel.
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