Hi all,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
Once again I must thank Philip for the excellent support. Will snoop
around the area he referenced and make the change.
Cheers,
Ray
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:06:19 +0100 (BST)
> From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
> To: Ray Smith <rcsmith@???>
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Strange message sizes after upgrading to 1.90...
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Ray Smith wrote:
>
> > Upgraded to 1.90 last week and we have begun having problems
> > sending e-mail to Skytel (Nationwide paging service here in the colonies).
> > They limit incoming messages to 10K and for some reason all of our
> > e-mail's going to them come out to 16K or better.
>
> Oh my goodness. My fault. I never imagined anybody would set a limit as
> low as 10K.
>
> What happened was that I was persuaded to extend Exim to use the SIZE=
> option for outgoing mail. The problem is that it doesn't actually know
> the number of bytes that it will send down the line, because (a)
> some things can get added, and (b) more importantly, each LF in the file
> gets turned into CRLF and it doesn't know how many lines there are in
> the file. So, to be on the safe side, it adds 16K to what it sends in
> SIZE to allow a margin for these things.
>
> I knew it, I knew it. I should have stuck to the old simple non-ESMTP
> protocol.
>
> You can stop this happening by looking around line 1004 in
> transports/smtp.c where it inspects the value of smtp_use_size. If you
> put
>
> smtp_use_size = FALSE;
>
> just above this, it won't do it.
>
> I have made a note to try to improve this. Given that circumstances such
> as yours exist, I will have to think of a way of making the fudge factor
> dependent on the size of the message, say 10% of the size, or something.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University Computing Service,
> ph10@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> P.Hazel@??? England. Phone: +44 1223 334714
>
Ray Smith
rcsmith@???
Computer Sciences Corporation
Corporate Technology Center
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