>>>>> "Tore" == Tore Anderson <tore@???> writes:
Tore> I'm setting up some Exim boxes to relay mail coming in
Tore> to/out from a cluster of Netscape Messaging servers. These
Tore> are somewhat brain-dead, as they gleefully send error
Tore> messages during the DATA when they're receiving messages
Tore> over SMTP. Before receiving the terminating ".", that is.
Tore> This becomes a real problem when Exim is sending very long
Tore> lines during DATA. The Messaging server seem to have a
Tore> fixed limit of 16384 characters per line, and if that limit
Tore> is exceeded, it immediately spits out a 550. Exim seems to
Tore> handle this well enough in most cases, and creates a bounce
Tore> á la:
Tore> SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host
Tore> foo [1.2.3.4] 550 DATA line too long (Max 16384)
We have the same problem (and not that far away from you either
:-). By the way the maximum line length is configurable in Netscape's
server but we were told it is a security risk to allow longer
lines. Its not a major problem for us as the only message we receive
with this long a line is generated by one of our own systems which
I've hacked up a little to avoid it.
As for solving it in Exim I'm not sure how you'd do it apart from
using embedded perl.
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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