Re: Whitelisting?

'k, note that the error below references to MIME Headers, not to regular 
headers, which are already @ 1024 ...

DEFAULT/_config:                     'max_header_line_length' => '1024',
DEFAULT/_config:                     'max_mime_header_length' => '256',
DEFAULT/_config:                     'max_total_header_length' => 4096,

Is there a reason why somone would have an odd lengthed MIME header?  Odd 
length being one that actually seems to trigger the check ...


On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier escribi?:
>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>>> Selena Deckelmann escribi?:
>>>>> Can we whitelist robert@pg-live.info? He's got some large headers that
>>>>> are tripping up majordomo, and I'm having to approve lotsa stuff.
>>>>
>>>> I think the right answer is to increase the header limit.  I get some
>>>> moderation requests from large headers on legitimate email too.
>>>
>>> I like that solution too!
>>>
>>> The high water mark was about 500. Here's an example error message:
>>>
>>>> A MIME header is too long (444 > 256)
>>
>> Does doubling to 512 sound okay?  Or should I just go straight to
>> 1024? thoughts?
>
> 1024 seems better.  As Tom says, it's not that rare to see References
> headers getting long on some threads.
>
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