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List:       majordomo-users
Subject:    Re: A minor annoyance - need help please
From:       Dan Liston <dliston () netscape ! com>
Date:       2000-12-29 4:42:04
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Your problem poses two questions.  Why is this person's header 
so long?  What options are available to get this person's posts 
into the list?

If the post has to go through more than half a dozen hops to 
get to the list, the headers could be legitimately large.  This 
can be reduced by pointing his SMTP outgoing host directly to 
your majordomo host as long as there are not firewalls or other 
obstacles preventing this.  Another option is for this backup 
list owner to telnet into the majordomo server and post his/her 
message from there. (poor security)

If you "want" to allow these huge headers into your list, for 
everyone, not just the list owner, you can change settings in 
the /etc/majordomo.cf file.  The settings to modify are;

# The maximum character length of the header lines for resend
#
$MAX_HEADER_LINE_LENGTH = 128;
 
# The maximum character length of the _entire_ header for resend
#
$MAX_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH = 1024;

Dan Liston

Layne Meier wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems with one of my majordomo lists that I could really
> use some help on.  I've combed through the config file and am wondering
> now if this might be an issue with sendmail and not necessarily
> majordomo, but thought someone here might have an idea.
> 
> We have one list that seems to be having a problem.  When someone tries
> to post to the list as a backup list owner, I get the following mail
> sent to me:
> 
> Subject:
>          BOUNCE politics@coxnews.com: Header field too long (>2048)
>    Date:
>          Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:16:26 -0500 (EST)
>    From:
>          owner-politics@coxnews.com
>      To:
>          owner-politics@coxnews.com
> 
> At issue is that it states that the Header field is too long (>2048).
> Where can this issue be resolved?
> 
> Thank you,
> Layne Meier
> Network/Internet Analyst
> Atlanta Newspapers

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