Re: [exim] truncated messages with mailman

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Author: richard
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To: exim-users, John W. Baxter
Subject: Re: [exim] truncated messages with mailman
Many thanks John.
I have tried sending a pure text message with a large text only body.
It has been truncated too. All messages regardless of type or attachments
appear with a total file size of 70 Kb. Message content is limited to 47Kb.
Attached is a screen shot of the configuration.

Here is log message: note the S=67197 - this value is similar but does vary
some.

2006-10-26 10:40:29 J7QIRH-000428-FA <= rh231@??? H=tid.hi.inet (tid)
[10.95.64.10] P=esmtp S=146989
id=00e201c6f8da$2683d210$a31b5f0a@PC216348133666
2006-10-26 10:40:30 J7QIRH-000428-FA => |/home/mailman/mail/mailman.exe post
test-list <test-list@???> R=system_aliases T=address_pipe
2006-10-26 10:40:30 J7QIRH-000428-FA Completed
2006-10-26 10:40:32 J7QIRK-00035C-O4 <= test-list-bounces@???
H=localhost (kitano.hi.inet) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=67197
id=00e201c6f8da$2683d210$a31b5f0a@PC216348133666
2006-10-26 10:40:33 J7QIRK-00035C-O4 => pca231@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp H=tidos.tid.es [193.145.240.2] X=TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128
2006-10-26 10:40:33 J7QIRK-00035C-O4 -> rh231@??? R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp H=tidos.tid.es [193.145.240.2] X=TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128
2006-10-26 10:40:33 J7QIRK-00035C-O4 Completed
2006-10-26 10:43:49 Start queue run: pid=1952
2006-10-26 10:43:49 End queue run: pid=1952


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Richard Hines
(Analista)
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Madrid, España.


----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Baxter" <jwblist3@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] truncated messages with mailman


> On 10/24/06 10:33 AM, "John W. Baxter" <jwblist3@???> wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/06 2:59 AM, "richard" <rh231@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone suggest anything?
>>> problem:
>>> I have exim with cygwin, running mailman as mail list administrator.
>>> With mailman all messages are truncated to about 47 Kb. With Mutt email
>>> client
>>> we can send messages with a much greater size.
>>> How can I increase the message size used with mailman? Thx.
>>
>> I don't know of any way to induce Exim to truncate normal messages in
>> that
>> way. (I could cause Exim to truncate bounces uncleanly like that.)
>>
>> The Mailman list was correct in what they told you (I'm on that list as
>> well). Mailman doesn't do that.
>
> More accurately, Mailman doesn't truncate individual MIME parts. It may
> very well be configured such that it is dropping one or more MIME parts
> completely.
>
>
> On 10/25/06 1:40 AM, "richard" <rh231@???> wrote:
> <log entries which show the message getting smaller as it passed through
> Mailman; and which suggest that the sending email program was Outlook
> Express>
>
> Mailman could certainly be dropping the text/html MIME part (if so
> configured) in a message coming in with text/plain, text/html, and
> image-carrying parts. If the result were then read in a mail program
> which
> reacts foolishly to the resulting message, I suppose it could look
> truncated. (The S=67986 shows that the message is larger than 45K, but
> once
> the 7-bit encoding is undone it could well come out as 45K.)
>
> I think you do need to look at the list's settings for content filtering,
> despite my earlier reaction that you got the proper answer from the
> Mailman
> list.
>
> But I don't think that's it, either, since you say "all" messages are
> truncated to 45 K (regardless of MIME parts). And my original claim that
> neither Mailman nor Exim should be doing that stands. You might want to
> try
> generating a pure text test message containing only ASCII characters of
> 60K
> or so, and sending that. (You would have to force Outlook Express to
> produce that--it's likely set to produce text/plain and text/html parts.)
>
> --John
>
>
>
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