Re: [Exim] Increase $message_body from 500 chars

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Kerry Seibold
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Increase $message_body from 500 chars
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 06:05 , Kerry Seibold <kerry@???> said:

>Hi Everyone,
>I hope someone can help me.
>Exim 4.
>Filter rules in .forward file.
>I want to increase $message_body from 500 chars to say 1000 chars.
>I have read the filter documentation, FAQs, man exim, and exim.conf, and
>Googled, but can't find a clue.


message_body_visible

in main config area

e.g

message_body_visible = 1000

means that 1K is looked at (approx)

Alan Thew
>
>Google found this:
>*********************
>On 20 Dec 2001, Andrew G. Hammond wrote:
>
>> I noticed that $message_body is by default truncated at 500 chars and
>> that newlines are transformed to spaces. Is there any way to get then
>> complete and original message body?
>
>Only by causing the message to be delivered somewhere. (You can increase
>the 500 by setting the appropriate option, but consider - messages can
>be tens of megabytes long. You don't really want that size of string in
>a variable.)
>
>--
>Philip Hazel
>***********************
>
>Is that a command line option to exim?
>
>Cheers,
>Kerry.
>
>
>
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>Kerry Seibold
>www.seiboldconsulting.com
>
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