Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!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 Message-ID: <1990Jul10.141251.13484@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 10 Jul 90 20:12:51 GMT References: <1990Jul9.142846.6422@hellgate.utah.edu> <1990Jul10.152320.6412@talos.pm.com> Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 17 X-Local-Date: 10 Jul 90 13:12:51 PDT In article <1990Jul10.152320.6412@talos.pm.com> Kyle Jones writes: > Jeff Forys writes: > > 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. > > [...] > > [*] Technically speaking, the "To:" header should never be truncated! > > I hope you meant long _lines_ are now correctly truncated. No, I meant what I wrote. With sendmail, each header (including any continuation lines therein) is read into a static buffer of size MAXFIELD. If the length of a particular header is too long, sendmail will truncate it. Please, dont shoot the messenger! :-) --- 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