Re[3]: [Sheflug] Sendmail and line limits

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Stevenson <richard.stevenson [at] team.xtra.co.nz> bashed a keyboard,
and produced:
> Does it split them, or just truncate them?  I had a feeling it just
> threw
> away everything after line[998], then put back the \r\n :0

It does indeed truncate the body after 2k characters

> > Sounds like it could be a procmail problem, possibly?
> 
> You know you spend too much time on IRC when you start typing things
> like
> that :P  

/me agrees heartily ;-D

> Whichever local delivery agent is, it'd be worth checking that.

I'll look at the procmail setup.

> That and your POP server (assuming you POP your mail).  It might be 
> worth

I think its MS Exchanges evil version of IMAP. Not sure though (this
request is by proxy :)

> checking the local mailer definition in your sendmail.cf, too - you
> can
> set the maximum length of lines passed to the local mailer there.

Aha! Checked that line, and it all looked rather cryptic. Any clues on
what I should check for?

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