I maintain a mailing list which has recently grown rapidly and now
numbers about 250 names. Although we in the CS department run fairly
recent versions of sendmail on our machines, outgoing email must pass
through a campus gateway which is a VMS machine and contains the 1024
limitation on header field length.
Would someone care to suggest patches to majordomo for doing splitting of
address lists in such a situation? I have checked the mailing list
archives and found discussion of the topic in 9302 and again in 9309 where
someone found it desirable for reasons of delivery time. No patches,
however.
Suggestions that I change the way email is handled on this campus, or
upgrade the mailer on the VMS machine, or get them to convert to Unix, or
that this isn't in the majordomo philosophy, will be cheerfully ignored,
thank you. None of those options is within my control. I have reported
the problem and someday it will be fixed, but meanwhile I have to work
around it. Changing majordomo to allow splitting when desired seems to
be a cleaner solution than adding more layers of wrapper programs. I can
write my own patches if necessary, but would prefer to build on work of
more experienced majordomo hackers, if any of them have done this.
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