Re: [Exim] Long lines in message body

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Auteur: Peter Rindfuss
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Aan: exim-users
CC: Odhiambo G. Washington
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Long lines in message body

> * Peter Rindfuss <rindfuss@???> [20031212 16:35]: wrote:
> > exim 4.30
> >
> > I would like to restrict the length of lines in the body of an
> > incoming message. We have an email client that chokes on long lines,
> > and sometimes we receive messages (usually spam) with lines with
> > several thousand chars in length (usually HTML). Is there a way to do
> > this in an ACL?
> >
> > BTW, shouldn't Exim always do something against such long lines?
> > RFCs 821, 2821 and 2822 state that lines in messages *must* not be
> > longer than 1000 characters, including crlf.
>
> An MTA is not supposed to modify the body of a message, me thinks.
>


Ok.

But can I reject (not modify) a message based upon its maximum line
length ?



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Peter Rindfuss
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung
(Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany)
email: rindfuss@???
phone: +49-30-25491-566 fax: +49-30-25491-558