[Dovecot] Problem with messages with long lines

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Thu Feb 17 17:10:59 EET 2011


On 02/17/2011 02:44 PM ZMA - Emiliano Mariño wrote:
> Hello dear mailing list readers,
>> Everything goes right until the POP3 client tries to retrieve a message that
> contains one or more long lines – lines as long as 3000 characters or even
> more.
> 
> The client (Outlook 2003 and 2007) stops on that message until timeout.

Your MTA really shouldn't accept any message which breaks the rules:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-2.1.1


Regards,
Pascal
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