Is the variable really named so - message_linelength_limit?
I checked
https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
and did not find it.
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 2:43 AM Jarland Donnell via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:
> A new variable was added in 4.95: message_linelength_limit
>
> This defaults to RFC spec which is 998 characters, but that's not where
> the conversation should end. Absolutely no one out there is creating
> software that adheres to the RFC standard. You can send an email from
> Outlook, Roundcube, Thunderbird, or whatever which violates this
> standard and it will be accepted by all major email providers with no
> issue. It should therefore be expected that exim admins will not demand
> everyone suddenly adopt this old standard, but instead that they'll
> increase the value of this variable in their configs to compensate.
> Personally, I set my servers to 52428800 for it.
>
> On 2022-05-28 13:24, Randy Bush via Exim-users wrote:
> > Exim version 4.95 #5 (FreeBSD 13.0)
> >
> > rancid is an automaton sweeping hardware devices and sending emails of
> > any diffs.
> >
> > randy@???
> > (generated from rancid-psgnet@???)
> > message has lines too long for transport
> >
> > uh, how do i whack it?
> >
> > randy
>
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