Just realized that I never answered that e-mail: it was IGetMail choking on too long subject lines :-/

Michael

Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Adam Armstrong
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 13:22
An: observium@observium.org
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

No desire to name and shame the mail server platform? :)

adam.

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On 05/06/2015 10:51:38, michael.weinrich@picturemaxx.com <michael.weinrich@picturemaxx.com> wrote:

Point taken :)

Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/

-- Michael

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Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Simon Smith
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)

Simon

> On 5 Jun 2015, at 9:53 am, Joseph L. Brunner wrote:
>
> Meanwhile,
>
> Exchange 2010 keeps on chuggin'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of
> emilio brambilla
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 04:03 AM
> To: observium@observium.org
> Subject: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server
>
> hello,
>
> On 06/05/2015 09:54 AM, Michael.Weinrich@picturemaxx.com wrote:
>>
>> "Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
>> SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
>>
>> the CRLF"
>>
>> The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
>> unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
>>
>> e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
>> a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
>>
>> so I can resubscribe?
>>
>
> hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
> but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
> rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
> very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
> fixed;
>
> :)
>
> --
> bye,
> emilio
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