Cyrus POP3 long line problem

[Bron Gondwana]

Good-o.

It's still a Cyrus bug, because Cyrus tries and fails to work around it.

And it's possible, in various ways (like filesystem corruption) to wind up with a file with a long line in it - the pop3d should at least abort in that case, not hang.

Bron.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 08:27 AM, Vincent Fox wrote:
> Just to follow up on this, I realized as Joseph pointed out, the larger
> problem is my MTA shouldn't be delivering RFC-breaking messages
> to the Cyrus backends.
> 
> However, sendmail seems to set L=0 on the Cyrusv2 mailer, and doesn't
> provide an easy way to redefine it in my macro file.
> 
> I hand-editted (ugh) the sendmail.cf to add ", L=2040, " and this will
> prevent this situation from arising.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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