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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
- Subject: Re: workaround for 4K buffer on most sendmails
- In-Reply-To: jch@rdg.dec.com's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:33:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Aug22124236@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
- References: <1992Aug19.160024.5887@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Aug20.083330.15236@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 12:42:36
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- In the interests of keeping my kneecaps, I'd like to add to John Haxby
- (Definitively Wrong)'s comments. I do not truncate long headers; I move
- them to the end of the body and replace the header with a placeholder
- that looks more or less like
-
- To: distribution:; (see end of body)
-
- which is syntactically valid and semantically nil as far as sendmail goes.
- Given this solution, headers can be of any length less than the number of
- bytes free on your file system, which is probably enough but I'd be willing
- to listen to (creative) reasons why this is still too short.
-
- Berkeley removed the 2500-character limit as of 5.65 or so, but old sendmails
- will still dump core when processing mail with headers longer than 2500 bytes,
- which is why I chose the solution I did.
-
- All this is in gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/misc/vixie/kjs.tar.Z, as always.
- (Yo, Paul P. -- any news?)
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
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