From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 20:51:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF26106564A for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6618FC16 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:51:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (www.darkmindweb.net [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Tv75r00pWzlt for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from 152.121.16.252 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:44 -0500 Message-ID: <412116ccd8627bfa2e1b8ed440a8f553.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <201202231901.q1NJ1D4g043370@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201202231901.q1NJ1D4g043370@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:44 -0500 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:51:45 -0000 On Thu, February 23, 2012 2:01 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Those 388 probably explain why I just saw on a FreeBSD-6.4 host: > > ] fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max) > ] fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@........ bounced to > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > ] fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery > > My sympathies go to postmaster@ team who are probably already > receiving lots of bounces & noise on this. > > PS Yes I realise I should upgrade that 6.4 box to 8.2 > (as headers made it through the more modern SMTP of list > server), but my local tech. constraints etc delay me ). Sounds like it's working as a decent spam filter to me. What setting to I have to change to make it do that again? ;) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------