Re: [exim] body line length limits

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Edgar Lovecraft
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] body line length limits
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Edgar Lovecraft wrote:

> > 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?
>
> don't know if it is worth exim doing the extra work, but there could be
> a new variable that works like $body_zerocount, except have it keep
> track of excessively long header/body lines.


Sure, that could be done, and I suppose that counting the bytes in each
line isn't much work - but multiplied by millions of messages...

It's not, however, unreasonable.

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