18 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: Message header si...
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Subject:[courier-users] Re: Message header size exceeds policy limit.Actions...
From:Doug Rintoul (silb@smu.edu.ph)
Date:Mar 12, 2001 10:33:18 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

On Tuesday 13 March 2001 12:10 pm, you wrote:

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Doug Rintoul writes:

I am getting this message when I use fetchmail to pull in a certain message and send it on to courier. What causes this message and is there a way I can increase the policy limit?

You probably have a mail loop somewhere. This error is reported when:

* A single header line exceeds 5000 characters.

* There more more than a 100 Received: headers.

* The size of all the header exceeds 100,000 bytes.

These limits are perfectly reasonable. If you're hitting it, you have something else that's broken.

Thanks for the info. I am pretty sure that it is not caused by a loop. Looking at the communication between fetchmail and the server, it looks like the message header is a total of 6937 bytes, and the message body is 4394. So it looks like you first suggestion is the case here, ie. a single header line exceeds 5000 characters. I will try a modified version of Courier (I am assuming that courier/submit.C is what I would change since that is where the message is generated), to see if I can pull in the message. Or I may try another email client and examine the message after I pull it in.

Doug.