Re: [exim] rebuilding bad rfc-822 bodies

Dave Lugo wrote:
> I have a situation where an EOL'd proprietary MTA has
> been 'fixing' message bodies which (iirc) are text/plain
> and which contain lines over 1000 characters in length.
>
> The 'fixing' consists (again, iirc) of base64 encoding
> and repacking the message.
>
> The fixing is necessary because the backend truncates
> lines longer than 1000 characters.
>
> I've done a quick search of the list archive, and I
> didn't find anything. Can exim do this 'fixup'?
>
> Suggestions gratefully received.

Exim can't do it directly, but if you can write a router that will
select just these messages that need fixing, you can deliver them to the
backend via a transport with a transport_filter defined.

- Marc