Error: Header field too long (>1024)

["Gary W. Marine" <marineg @ lists . hv . boeing . com>]

I'm getting the following error and bounced message from Majordomo:

  BOUNCE [listname] Header field too long (>1024)

The user is sending a message from Quickmail on a PC and including 76 
other addresses in the To: header and 4 addresses in the Cc: header.

I know the error message comes from the following lines in the resend script:

  -------------------------------------------------------------------
  # is this field too long?
  if ((($field_len += length($_)) > 1024) && ! defined($approved)) {
     &bounce("Header field too long (>1024)");
     return(undef);
  }
  -------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm not sure what the purpose of this code is.  Can it be removed 
safely, or can the 1024 value be increased without complications?
Or, is this a result of a problem elsewhere that I'm missing?  

Configuration:

  Sparc 20
  SunOS 5.4
  Majordomo 1.93
  Perl 5

Thanks for any help,
Gary Marine


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