Thinking about this a little more.
I don't think the problem is xmail receiving the lines that are too
long, I think it might be in xmail sending out the lines that are too
long.

Back to my email flow:
Xmail1 receives an email with the long line. My filter sees it is from
yahoo so it copies the mail file. The copy has a line that is about 1400
chars long.
XMail1 sends the message to XMail2 due to domain forwarding.
XMail2 receives an email with from address containing yahoo so it copies
the mail file. The copy has the long line broken with a CR in the middle
of it.

This is what happened with xmail 1.25, and since the first xmail server
wrote the mail file out with the long line I assume it probably received
it ok. But the second xmail server in the line is writing out a bad
line, so I assume it got a bad line.

I haven't looked at the xmail source to see if the sending of a long
line is the problem, just a theory at this point.

Couple comments on this.
It is NOT every message that gets it. Some days there are only one or
two, some days there are a dozen. This is out of 100 or so emails from
yahoo a day. 
I just started paying attention to it last November, I think it started
about mid month then. None of the emails have been important (it's yahoo
groups) so I haven't made it a priority.
XMail1 is in the DMZ while XMail2 is on my internal network. The mail is
just passing through a home router (SMC) which should not be doing
anything to the mail. (Should not, but maybe someone knows something
different about them).
And finally, I think the line is about 1400 chars without any white
space in it. I will try to paste it in here but don't know what outlook
is going to do with it. One big sold mess of garbage as far as I can
tell.

X-YMail-OSG:
4aFdVu0VM1l2Zxivn_LobWTcb1JNOyDLZE3BT3ph3bzDZBswapGQZg9e3XVHs3RF4rcbNLfE
IjEzWUl6RLGV2T9Wqlg6T1o.lRrfNUWFLfIxTYH3YUg5oBp8nfPSRxNL3pjMAEGQ8zS0ZeV.
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8cBp9dfpbAJf1E9_Uz5oFEFwNOLAqPaVJKC6L2S5vKrs5ls2jK29aFEWtoWHwD79VK4CYVA5
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nsOaKUBFbLzRssyHcLv7X.n6geW0xElppJwPkWaBFiYx4n3zzZC8D4bZQJ9sswguNRT7KnAG
BTSQlKUp07qo18q3tDNKjkHFcWl9hzF9T44gYS4Y5s3SN.7CRDeD5uezwW1aJbGLY_gCinaQ
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LMEklFCpHjJRqKrnvEl3dtvG_4boiGa1thWBpqqGGLymMfkt6YYtTqPp7uoA..vB8LXm.sbD
KBJuC18L0cDDqSnCoWe6cgI1Fcmi0SFRJzymJGd7VNybCgPAnzX1glTXFr3IsFj.iqsDXvlS
rkuOktjXTqn_l6TgLDOvw7jLd3RXDDEETnbR0BmPW5OZzYrRSzPosaISEMUjJc7QFLHOH8bO
1Rp.yKykQDTIS.4-

Phillip



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:23 AM
To: XMail Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [xmail] xmail 1.25 problem with a smtp headers

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Phillip R. Shaw wrote:

> Thinking about how to send myself an email with a line over a thousand
> chars long. Hope your are not thinking of telnet and counting that
many
> chars.
> 
> I'm on windows with the basic windows telnet client. Would redirecting
> an input file with the commands to telnet work? Or would that confuse
> xmail when it wasn't waiting for the responses?
> 
> What are the basic commands for sending an email? I can try that. That
> would let me put the long line in a file. I have the captured emails
> that I got with the filters if they would work anywhere in the
testing.
> 
> And checking, it appears that I don't have telnet on Vista but do on
> Windows2003. I didn't realize they had dropped it (or I didn't pick
all
> the options when I installed).

Just tried myself. No worky. Need to check better tomorrow. There must
be 
other places where lines are broken up ...


- Davide


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