(oops, sent this somehow to majordomo-workers-owner first.
Sorry about that !!!!)
I have a situation where a user is sending CCmail to a personal mailing list
containing about 2 dozen people, plus to a majordomo mailing list. When the
CCmail program (or the CCmail->smtp gateway it goes through) expands the
user's distribution list, the sum of the To: headers is well over 1024
characters.
When majordomo receives the message (for the domo list in the To: header)
resend bounces the message to the list owner due to the header being over
the 1024 size limit in $MAX_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH in majordomo.cf. Looks
like resend is the only piece of majordomo that uses this parameter.
I have a few questions:
- shouldn't majordomo bounce to the sender also so the poor
user knows his mail didn't go through ?
- resend doesn't log to the majordomo log file that the
bounce occurred or why, but it knew (because the
list owner got mail). Shouldn't resend log too
whenever it knows what's wrong so the majordomo
admin can monitor the logs ?
- why does resend CARE that the header length
is under 1024 as long as the line length
doesn't pass the operating system's max
line length limits ?
- assuming resend should care about $MAXIMUM_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH,
can I change the value without causing downstream
problems on some other system ?
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----------- Vince Skahan -------------- vince.skahan@boeing.com -----------
Technical excellence is part of having fun. Getting serious bragging
rights is part of having fun. Taking over the world is only a
by-product. -- Lars Wirzenius on the Linux Doc Project mailing list
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