Bug#828801: Legitimate mail can contain long lines

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-12-17 Gedalya <gedalya at gedalya.net> wrote:
> On 12/17/2016 11:48 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>>    * Add macro MAX_PHYSICAL_LINE_LENGTH with a default value of 998 to allow
>>      overriding the SMTP physical line length limit both for SMTP DATA ACL and
[...]
> The correct limit is 998 octets. If my incoming mail flow violates
> this, it would be because the sender does not have a defined line
> length limit.
> How then can I come up with a number to set this variable to?
> An arbitrary figure such as 9999 might just happen to work, but
> wouldn't it be better to make it possible to revert to the previous
> behavior, and skip this check entirely?

Fair enough. See GIT head:
* Add macro IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT to allow disabling the SMTP DATA
  physical line limit check for both for SMTP DATA ACL and remote_smtp*
  transports. Closes: #828801

cu Andreas
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