Matthew Sayler wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:38:39PM +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote: > >>Matthew Sayler wrote: >> >>>I thought I'd put this issue more clearly, since it's buried in my bug >>>report for 335: >>> >>>Bug 335 (http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=335) gets triggered >>>when headers in a message exceed 4095 bytes in length. The "fault" for >>>this lies with GMIME, and in fact the newest 2.1 series GMIME fixes the >>>problem (tested in 2.1.19). >> >>First off, thanks a lot for the drilldown. > > > No problem. It's a nice change of pace form debugging HTML/JavaScript > or Internet connectivity -- which is most of what I do on an average > day. > > Speaking of thanks, mayhaps I could get a mention in THANKS?
done. > > >>>Unfortunately, Debian stable only includes 2.1.14, and the version in >>>testing depends on a bunch of other components that can't be pulled into >>>stable: >> >>I don't see any solution right off. We could fix >>dbmail_message_set_header to avoid hitting the critical limit >>(butt-ugly, I know). We could try stuff like dropping identical headers, >>or perhaps even moving a couple of headers to the body of the email. >>All that only when detecting a gmime-version < 2.1.15. Where's the fun >>in that. > > > I think *fixing* the issue is a not going to be easy. I suggest some > sort of warning on configure for dbmail < 2.1.19 and a menion in the > release notes. Getting/building a backport of gmime without the mono dependency is probably the least painfull. > > >>To be quite honest though, my initial reaction tends to be: sod sarge! >>Hail etch! Not the best sales pitch, I guess :-) > > > I'm actually not sure what I'm going to do long term. I'm not really > ready to move my mail server to etch. I may just install the package > from source (gasp!) and not use the Debian packaging. And that will solve this how?? > I may install > dbmail on a vserver again instead of on my main mail server. Do you suspect problems with etch? -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
