I just received the following Email from exim 2.054:
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Return-path: <>
Envelope-to: postmaster@???
Delivery-date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:36:15 +0100
Received: from mail by arthur.rhein-neckar.de with local (Exim 2.054 #1)
id 0znHgs-0007kX-00
for postmaster@???; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:36:14 +0100
Message-Id: <E0znHgs-0007kX-00@???>
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@???>
To: postmaster@???
Subject: Error in batched SMTP input
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:36:14 +0100
While reading a batch of messages using the -bS option, the
following error was detected:
552 Header line is ridiculously overlong
The message that contained the error was skipped.
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>From my log file I can't analyze where the email came from, it seems
it was really silently skipped:
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1998-12-08 08:36:13 0znHgq-0007kT-00 <= egcs-return-126-aj=arthur.rhein-neckar.de@??? U=uucp P=local-bsmtp S=1200 id=29161.913098329@???
1998-12-08 08:36:13 0znHgr-0007kT-00 <= egcs-return-127-aj=arthur.rhein-neckar.de@??? U=uucp P=local-bsmtp S=2438 id=29189.913098600@???
1998-12-08 08:36:13 0znHgr-0007kT-01 <= egcs-return-128-aj=arthur.rhein-neckar.de@??? U=uucp P=local-bsmtp S=2612 id=29202.913098766@???
1998-12-08 08:36:14 0znHgs-0007kX-00 <= <> U=mail P=local S=582
1998-12-08 08:36:15 0znHgq-0007kT-00 => aj <aj@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-12-08 08:36:15 0znHgq-0007kT-00 Completed
1998-12-08 08:36:15 0znHgr-0007kT-00 => aj <aj@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-12-08 08:36:15 0znHgr-0007kT-00 Completed
1998-12-08 08:36:17 0znHgs-0007kX-00 => aj <postmaster@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-12-08 08:36:17 0znHgs-0007kX-00 Completed
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What possibilities do I have to at least recover such emails?
Increasing HEADER_MAXLENGTH isn't a real solution. I'd prefer to get
the mail appended to the error email but not skipped and thrown away
since I don't have a chance to recover it.
Andreas
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