Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:16:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: dissonant <disowned@flitr.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail config crises! :( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907271113240.15790-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907270950590.86378-100000@flitr.nu>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, dissonant wrote: > I started trying to play with sendmail config files and everything's > gone haywire. Just not my day? First, I'm getting this error whenever > I try to send mail or do anything: > > /etc/sendmail.cf: line 402: readcf: unknown option name MaxMimeHeaderLength > Jul 27 09:29:56 flitr sendmail[84633]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/sendmail.cf: > line 402: readcf: unknown option name MaxMimeHeaderLength > > So I commented out the following line in order to send THIS message, > but it worries me. > > # Maximum MIME header length to protect MUAs > O MaxMimeHeaderLength=256/128 That is a way for sendmail to protect MUAs that don't check the MIME header length before copying it. There were some "viri" going around that used this to invoke itself when received, without the user doing anything. Many of the MUA makers released patches. There is also a patch to sendmail to munge Mime headers over a certain length. Basically, the sendmail.cf is trying to use a feature that isn't compiled into your sendmail executable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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