On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> As I understand it, the problem is with things like superlong filenames.
> These would appear in the *body* of the message - not the RFC822 headers.
> Remember there can be lots of MIME parts - each with their own
> mime-headers.
>
> You could deal with the MIME-Version header as you suggest, but not
> anything that is linked to the internal mime parts.
You have just confirmed that I know nothing about this. :-) Making Exim
do anything inside the body of a message itself would be a Gigantic
change. However, you could use a transport filter at delivery-to-mailbox
time, I suppose.
> BTW The procmail recipe appears to fork off a perl script to find and deal
> with the problems. That is serious overhead per message!
... and using a transport filter would incur the same overhead (but
could use the same perl script?)
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