Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!snake.utah.edu!forys From: forys@snake.utah.edu (Jeff Forys) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: fix for wideload headers Summary: fixed in 5.64 Message-ID: <1990Jul9.142846.6422@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 9 Jul 90 20:28:45 GMT References: Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 15 X-Local-Date: 9 Jul 90 13:28:45 PDT In article Paul Vixie writes: > Sendmail has a fixed buffer that it puts headers in; it's usually 2500 > characters wide. If you overflow it, various bad things happen, usually > starting with extra blank lines being inserted into your mail headers. I just wanted to point out that the aforementioned problem has been fixed in Sendmail 5.64. Long headers are now correctly truncated [*] to MAXFIELD; headers are collected using a double-buffering scheme. Paul's modifications look like they are to sendmail 5.61 so they may not patch right over the new collect(). [*] Technically speaking, the "To:" header should never be truncated! --- Jeff Forys @ Unv of Utah/Salt Lake, Comp Sci Dept. (801-581-4280) forys@cs.utah.edu -or- ..!{boulder,cs.utexas.edu}!utah-cs!forys