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and subject line Bug#1019959: fixed in exim4 4.96-5
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regarding Restore config macro to send >998 length lines
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Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.95
exim4-config 4.95~RC0-1 removed IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT which when
set, fully removed any line length limit. It was replaced with
IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT which would accept mail with >998 length
lines, but not send them.
Please restore IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT, or something similar, so
people don't have to overwrite Debian's smtp transports with ones that
add message_linelength_limit. That option doesn't have a documented max
or a way to say no limit, so I suggest 2^31. A 2GB line is effectively
turning off any limit.
Why?
Accepting >998 but not sending them breaks various useful things:
* Forwarding email with long lines doesn't work. I've also found
forwarded bounces bounce, even though bounce_return_linesize_limit
suggests they should be truncated.
* Every week I get legitimate patches >998 length on the GNU mailing
lists. The kernel linux has 20 text files with >998 lines. Exim itself
has 37 files. The only really popular tool I know for sending email
patches is git-send-email and it has no way to wrap those lines. It
seems a bit silly/ironic to ship a bunch of macros so that the core
config files don't need to be changed for typical uses, but not support
email patches for parts of exim itself.
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Source: exim4
Source-Version: 4.96-5
Done: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
exim4, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> (supplier of updated exim4 package)
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Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 14:26:52 +0200
Source: exim4
Architecture: source
Version: 4.96-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Closes: 1019946 1019959
Changes:
exim4 (4.96-5) unstable; urgency=low
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* Add pointers to /etc/mailname documentation to exim4-config_files.5.
Closes: #1019946
* Change remote_smtp transports to set message_linelength_limit = 2G if
IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT was set to avoid accepting messages (due to
IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT disabling the limit in the ACLs) without
being able to pass them on. Closes: #1019959
* Pull 75_16-GnuTLS-fix-for-clients-offering-no-TLS-extensions.patch from
upstream GIT.
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