On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Philip Chambers wrote:
> RFC2822 section 2.1.1 says "Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998
> characters".
>
> By default exim does not reject messages which fail to comply with this
> requirement. I have searched the documentation and cannot find any option which
> would reject messages which do not comply.
Exim tries to take the attitude that the body is none of its business,
so (apart from making changes to line-ending conventions) it leaves it
alone.
> Is there such an option?
No, sorry.
> I have only ever seen spam messages which exceed the limit so, if all the popular
> e-mail clients are compliant, this would be another weapon in the fight against spam.
I suspect there are probably real messages that do. It it really worth
having Exim do this extra work? How many spam messages would it catch?
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