The part of system_filter.exim which looks for over-length date headers is
encountering an odd bounce message from AT&T (with help from Western
Union...once the US telegraph company) which has 3 quite ordinary date
headers...the total length of three normal date headers is more than the 80
characters the filter as written allows.
For the moment, I've extended the length tested to enough to allow the
$header_date: length test to work...I'd like to get a few of these messages
back to the sender here. That's probably not the best way to do
this...only extending the allowed length in selected cases would likely be
better 9and cost more cycles.
Our bounce of their bounce comes to me as a standin for <>.
With I hope enough details fuzzed to maintain privacy, here's what I see.
Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks. --John
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