Re: dropping long, long header fields (was Re: why is this failing?)

[Jim Osborn <http://www.eskimo.com/~jimo>]

> > I assume you're familiar with the c flag in formail, to concatenate
> > continued fields?
>
>Yes, but why would I want to use that?  Wouldn't that be even worse?

I suppose it would; I wasn't sure exactly what your problem was.

> > Also, there's a linebuf length that the whole
> > recipe has to fit into.  You can increase it if needed.  Check the
> > man page for the exact name.
>
>LINEBUF seems only to be for lines in the rc file itself.  True, some are
>long, but not terribly so.  I still think it was due to a long header field.
>I wish the header didn't get deleted so I could reproduce it! :(

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to make up test mails to run through it?
If your hypothesis is correct, there should be some header length
that fails, and then you can chase down the cause.  I've encountered
some pretty long Received lines, but never anything that failed the
way you're describing; must have been REALLY long!

Do let us know what you learn.

Cheers,

Jim