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Subject: Re: BOUNCE-header too long
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:13:45 -0600 (CST)
To: lkiczuk @ aura . title14 . com (Lisa Kiczuk)
Cc: Majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970210165028.27580B-100000@aura.title14.com> from "Lisa Kiczuk" at Feb 10, 97 05:02:11 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Lisa Kiczuk writes: ]
> 
> 	I just installed Majordomo 1.94.1 (last week) and it is working
> great. But somebody just subscribed to my list and this person has super
> long headers. Majordomo doesn't like this so it keeps bouncing his
> messages to me. Is there a way I could stop the messages from being
> bounced? It's really a pain to have to approve each and every post of his.
> 
> 	I looked at the majordomo.cf file and saw that there is a line in
> there about the size of the message header, but it is commented out.
> Wouldn't that cause majordomo to not have a limit on the size of the
> header? Or should I uncomment that line and make it some outrageous number
> so his messages don't get bounced? Or would that cause problems?

Commenting out $MAX_HEADER_LINE_LENGTH should cause warning from Perl
and cause *every* message to bounce. Just set $MAX_HEADER_LINE_LENGTH
and/or $MAX_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH to some (reasonably) larger values.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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