On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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?
It seems to me absurd as well, but I really had hard times
explaining to a real user why putting hundreds of addresses
in To: won't work anymore, and worked everywhere else, that's
what absurd, he thinks!
Some people are just not cooperating:)
ilya@???