smtp_reason length limits

[Jo Rhett]

Unless you are doing this with a milter, you are creating backscatter spam for all the forged senders of your e-mail. Please confirm you are using a milter to reject the spam during the delivery session.

On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Stef Simoens <stef+au at bgs.org> wrote:
> I've been running with an amavisd pre-queue setup for some time now. Instead of D_DISCARD'ing incoming e-mail, I'm D_REJECTING this e-mail flow.
> 
> To be transparent, I'm adding a descriptive reason (via smtp_reason_by_ccat).
> 
> This works correctly, but however the reason text is limited to 103 chars (and I don't see why this is).
> 
> I've patched amavisd (see attached patch) and now my smtp_reason is complete.
> 
> Maybe somebody can explain me why the smtp_reason is limited to 103 chars and/or this patch can be included in a future version of amavisd? 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Stef
> 
> <amavisd-2.7.2-reason.patch>

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