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Subject: Digest size checking bug?
From: Jim Reisert <jjr @ databook . com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:47:22 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com (MajorDomo Users)

I had a digest which was refused by some Juno subscribers because of its 
length.  The strange thing is that I have maxlength = 40000, but the digest 
was over 62K (I think Juno limits incoming mail to 60K).

So why was the digest so long?  My guess is that the algorithm for checking 
digest length goes something like, "Is the digest now > 40K characters?  If 
not, append the next message to the digest and check length again".  The last 
post to this digest was VERY long, that's the one that broke the camel's back.

Is there a simple way to fix the digest code to NOT append another article to 
the digest if it would make the digest too long?  This of course gets into the 
obvious problem, "Well, what if there is only one message and it's >40K 
characters all by itself?"

- Jim

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Jim Reisert <jjr@databook.com>		SMC Massachusetts, Danvers, MA
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