Autor: Sander Smeenk Data: Dla: exim-users Temat: Re: [exim] DKIM signing & max line length
Quoting Jeremy Harris (jgh@???):
> > I tried to get some info on this. Aparently RFC2822 specifies a line
> > in an email should not exceed 998 chars (+CRLF=1000). I haven't
> > heard of any MTA enforcing this and it would seem a bit low to me.
> The current configure.default in the source code enforces it.. but you
> didn't give a version of Exim or say if you're using that
> configuration unmodified.
I'm running 4.86.2 from Ubuntu repositories but with my own
configuration. That means i have my own exim4.conf.
No split config update-conf-d-exim4.conf-conf-tomfoolery.
> > Why are there three different(!) MAX-settings in the Exim code?
> You haven't pointed them out...
I haven't checked the exact cases where this is tested in the code
but what was found in the post from 2012 still seems to linger
around in the code: