Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 118] support for DSN

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Author: Wolfgang Breyha
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 118] support for DSN
On 27/04/14 19:16, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:05:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Breyha wrote:
>
>> improvements:
>> *) added MIME "failure" reports
>>   *) bounce_return_message is ignored (required by RFC)
>>   *) in case RET= is defined we honor these values
>>      otherwise bounce_return_body are honored.
>>   *) bounce_return_size_limit is always honored.

>
> Question about this: What do you do when bounce_return_body is set,
> but the body is larger than the bounce_return_size_limit is exceeded?


The same Exim always did. Cutting of the body at bounce_return_size_limit
if the admin wants to do so.

> Simply truncating MIME output is problematic. Postfix returns only
> the headers (changing the returned content MIME type from message/rfc822
> to text/rfc822-headers) when the body is too large to return. Is
> this also the new Exim approach?


My patch is far from defining "the new Exim approach";-) Currently it
sticks to classic Exim behaviour. But I'm open for changing that.

Thanks for mentioning text/rfc822-headers. I missed that part from RFC.

Greetings, Wolfgang
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Vienna University Computer Center | Austria