On 1.06.2022 10:39, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On 31.05.2022 13:40, Heiko Schlichting via Exim-users wrote:
>> Jarland Donnell 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.
>>
>> I was surprised that a value of 0 didn't completely disable this check.
>
> It was closed with "won't fix":
>
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2870
>
Also worth mentioning that exim itself also creates byggy emails
(bounces) if these are based on buggy original message:
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )
