Re: [Exim] Too many chars in system filter / 4.30

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andrew J. Hutson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Too many chars in system filter / 4.30
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Andrew J. Hutson wrote:

> >Increase the number in line 839 of the source file src/filter.c.
> >
> >Or use the facility for generating messages from a file rather than an
> >inline string (the "file" and "file_expand" options of the "mail"
> >command).
>
> If the message text is coming from a database, is increasing the number in
> filter.c the only way round it?


If the text is coming from a database, this is not relevant. The limit
is on the size of literal strings in a filter file. That is, the number
of characters between "" marks.

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