Cyrus POP3 long line problem

[Joseph Brennan]

Vincent Fox <vbfox at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> I have recently noticed that certain malformed messages hang POP3 clients.
> The pattern is that the mesages all have obscenely long last lines. I
> can see it
> when I set up debug log dir for the account, that the download of the
> message
> proceeds fine up until 2048th character and then stops.


How is that possible? The SMTP maximum is 1000 including the CR LF pair. 
I'm surprised a message like that is accepted by your MTA and/or LMTP. If 
Cyrus IMAP handles up to 2047 characters that's very generous.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University I T