Package: cron-apt Version: 0.11.0 Severity: normal Hi,
the line length in SMTP is limited to 998 bytes. The exim packages in Debian do enforce this. When a system is way behind with its updates, the list of packages which is included in the apt output can exceed this length. In this case, the message is not fowarded by Debian's default MTA in its default configuration. cron-apt should wrap lines. fold(1), which is in coreutils, can do this job nicely, augmented by the --witdh=900 --spaces arguments. Maybe it would be a good idea to make the width configurable. If you want me to, I can cough up a patch. Greetings Marc
