LTMPD rejecting large messages, maxmessagesize is _not_ set

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

>>  Why would Cyrus return that?  Obviously something is wrong with the
>>  delivery, but under what circumstances would a) lmtpd invoke the
>>  sendmail binary?
>
> That would happen if the user in question has a sieve redirect rule.

Yep, I just figured that out.  The user is forwarding their mail off,
and the service to which they are forwarding is rejecting the
message.  Thanks!

>>  c) lmtpd pass the failure
>>  message, unadorned, back to the sender?  The latter in particular
>>  seems like broken behavior; shouldn't lmtpd return something like '5xx
>>  sendmail: fatal: ...'?
>
> Sure, but that's a known bug :-) At least I seem to remember that it came up 
> some time ago.

Yeesh.  If I was a C programmer, I'd fix that.  That seems decidely
less robust than one would expect.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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