It seems Exim has a default limit of 998 characters per RFC on SMTP
sending transport. If this is violated the message is rejected. I agree
with the limit, but trying to find a way to "fix" broken senders.
An optimal way may be to have an option in Exim to "wrap" lines longer
than X. I know there is an argument on not doing this. I guess a
transport_filter could do this, but would run into the same issue
described below..
A "workaround" for this was to pipe the message through a
transport_filter to just truncate lines longer than 998. Again, not
optimal, but need a fix to send these messages out without dropping them
completely.
I was able to do this with the below..
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
transport_filter = /usr/bin/cut -c1-998
But it appears Exim enforces message_linelength_limit BEFORE the
transport_filter, not after. Should the order of operation be changed to
do this check AFTER the transport_filter?
The only workaround was to do something like:
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
message_linelength_limit = 1M
transport_filter = /usr/bin/cut -c1-998
Not a big deal, it works. Just wondering if the linelength check should
come after the filter and not before ...
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