Hi,

I have one message being refused by my courier/bin/sendmail. The error is:

534 Message header size, or recipient list, exceeds policy limit. sendmail: Unable to submit message.

This messagem have been received from an external source through couriersmtpd (have been accepted), has been passed to amavisd-new for virus and spam scanning and is being refused by courier/bin/sendmail when amavis is trying to pass the message back to courier for final local delivery.

Why is courier/bin/sendmail refusing a message that has been accepted by couriersmtpd?

Are there different header size parameters for couriersmtpd and for courier/bin/sendmail?

How can I change courier/bin/sendmail parameters to match couriersmtpd?

I thought that maybe the problem was caused by some fews extra headers that amavis is including in the message that would be just getting above the limit but I tried to inject the message just as it has been received by couriersmtpd and courier/bin/sendmail stills rejects it with the same error.

I am including the headers of the message here for reference, the message itself is really small and ordinary. BTW, the message might look like spam (lots of recipients and all caps subject but it really isn't).

headers

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TIA,