Re: [exim] Questions about "Line too long"

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Author: Jonas Meurer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Questions about "Line too long"
On 19/07/2006 Marc Sherman wrote:
> Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >
> > the problem is that newsletters are sent through this server, and some
> > of them have more than 50 t-online addresses subscribed. and for some
> > reason the error happens quite often.
> > i will see whether i can get one of the mails that produced such an
> > error. but the error occurs only for t-online addresses, all others
> > receive the newsletter.
>
> Is it possible that t-online is adding a header containing all the RCPT
> addresses on their server, and that's the line it's rejecting because
> there are too many recipients? If so, then setting max_rcpt on your SMTP
> transport might solve the problem.
>
> http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch30.html


sounds interesting, but according to the spec, the default is already
100, and 100 email-addressed don't produce 16500 characters.

maybe the limit for header lines difffers, and for the subject it is ca.
16000 chars, while for the t-online RCPT header it is something like
3000 chars.

i don't see any oterh way than investigating this with further tests.

thanks for your help

...
jonas