[SA-exim] Header Problem.

[Paul Matthews]

Hi.

We are using the following with good results:

exim-4.10
sa-exim-2.2
Mail-SpamAssassin-2.43

We are getting one problem. One of our users has a large email list. A
quick look at the headers is around 496 recipients and the header size
is around 11756 bytes. It's failing to accept the message because it's
bigger than the 8192 buffer (in exim's header.c) ??


Here's the log entry:

2002-12-03 00:33:36 18J10J-000507-00 string too long in header_add: 
	X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: wales-jobs@swan.ac.uk, jasonalex_uk@yahoo.co.uk, 
	jbkrome@hotmail.com, allennicola ...

A quick hack of the sa-exim.c code (about line 274) to alter the header_add
bit from this:

	header_add(' ', "X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: %s\n", rcptlist);

to this:

	if (strlen(rcptlist)<8192)
		header_add(' ', "X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: %s\n", rcptlist);
	else
		header_add(' ', "X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: WARNING - STRING TOO BIG\n");

I'm not really a C programmer ! This appears to accept the message OK. This
did work OK before using SA, etc...

Has anyone else come across this or have I (not) done something studid ?

Cheers,
Paul.
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