Bug#821830: exim4: Exim rejects mail with overlong lines without any explanation

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 06:18:31PM +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> 1) mail is rejected without any explanation; as a non-expert of Exim, it
>    took me much digging to discover that an ACL rule exists which
>    rejects mail without any explanation added to the logs: as a minimum,
>    a message line should be added to the acl rule

What do the logs say?

> 2) this change is very important, as it can cause people to lose mail:
>    the administrator should be clearly notified of it upon upgrade

Using fetchmail aready is saying "I'm willing to lose mail as I don't
want to build a sane e-mail setup".

Greetings
Marc

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