Author: Ted Cooper Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] RegEx longer than maximum string length in system filter
Schramm, Dominik wrote: > Schramm, Dominik on Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:49 AM:
>
>> [...] I'm trying to match From and Date headers against
>> RFC 2822 correctness. My Date expression is 1000 characters
>> long, the From expression is 1150 characters.
>>
>> I could test twice and match against one alternative at a time
>> [...]
>
> I decided to check for this in the DATA ACL. It was supposed as
> a means of rejecting offending messages at SMTP time anyway. I
> just wanted to log the offending portions for some time before
> activating it, but I can do that in the ACL, too.
There was talk on exim-dev regarding a RFC 2822 date parsing patch to
the exim code.
