Bug#849770: exim4: bogus reject response on overlong lines

2018-08-27 Thread RĂºben Leote Mendes
It seems you are missing the size check in the DATA ACL and so the messages are refused in the transport that, as you report, gives a very unhelpful error. The "acl/40_exim4-config_check_data" that ships with stretch should refuse the messages with "maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, g

Bug#849770: exim4: bogus reject response on overlong lines

2016-12-30 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: exim4 Version: 4.88-2 Severity: normal Hi! If an user agent attempts to send a mail containing lines longer than SMTP's allowed max of 998 bytes (such as reportbug -- #849765), exim's response is extremely unhelpful. The user gets: .[ Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender