Header Max Size problem

[rubbersoul]

I have a problem. I'm a new Sys Admin taking over for a crazy paranoid Admin who put size limitations everywhere. It's so bad that half the emails don't get around from one place to another within the office. I'm trying to figure out a size limitation that he put on headers (1024) which seems to be giving me some serious headaches. He seems to have it only on mailing lists as an email went out and everyone got the mail with exception to the 2 mailing list entries. I've looked through a million and one .conf files hoping to find this value somewhere but to no luck. I've looked at sendmail.conf and at the individual mailing list .conf file. Does anyone have any clue where else I may find this?

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[Rhinokiller]

More than likely your old Admin was trying an anti-spam measure by looking for suspect mail headers on inbound mail. If that was the case sendmail is not causing your problem. U need to look at any rules your LDA (local delivery agent) is using. If you are using procmail as your LDA, check for .procmailrc recipies and take a look at them to see what they are doing. If you need help w/ procmail post the recipe here and we'll take a look at it.


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[rubbersoul]

I found a procmailoutgoing.rc file. The only .rc file that I can see, but upon lokking into it there seemed to be no header info.

 

[cameramonkey]

try this. Since you mentioned only the mailing lists, it sounds like it may be a majordomo config issue.

If it is indeed majordomo, its in the majordomo.cf file.

On my system, its in /usr/local/majordomo (cobalt raq)
look for "$MAX_HEADER_LINE_LENGTH = xxx;
and $MAX_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH = xxxx;

hope that helps.

Roy

 

[rubbersoul]

That was it!!! Super! Thanks