[AMaViS-user] Mangled mails ... who's to blame?

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Hi,

I have a questions that's not necessarily entirely on-topic, but I'm not=20
sure...

a site for which we relay mail has problems with mangled mail. The MIME=20
headers are broken and so the mail can't be parsed properly by the MUA.=20
They are running iPlanet and don't have a clue.

We are running sendmail 8.12.2 with amavisd-new. Below is an example of a=20
mangled mail. It only happens with extremely long To: headers.

*They* claim that amavisd may break these mails, but I don't buy that,=20
because I've never heard complaints from users on our server.

Does anybody have an idea what's going on there?

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Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:39:05 +0200
From: Thomas Schaefer <sch...@pe...>
To: han...@ki..., Hag...@un...
Subject: "zerhackte" Mail

Return-path: <h.d...@un...>
Received: from mpifnf-fire (fw [10.2.2.1]) by mail.mpin-koeln.mpg.de
 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May  7 2001))
 with SMTP id <0GU...@ma...> for wdh@ims-ms-daemon
 (ORCPT W.D...@pe...); Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:50:22 +0200
(MEST) Received: from  ([134.95.100.208]) by mpifnf-fire; Wed,
 10 Apr 2002 06:50:18 +0200 (MEST)
Received: from mailout1.uni-essen.de (mailout1.uni-essen.de
[132.252.184.12])      by mail1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP
id g3A4oGrm021496     (version=3DTLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=3DEDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
bits=3D168 verify=3DNOT)      for <W.D...@pe...>; Wed, =
10
Apr 2002 06:50:17 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [132.252.149.118]
(helo=3Dpc-chef)     by mailout1.uni-essen.de with  smtp (Exim 3.22 #4)
id 16vA2S-000TTA-0j; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:48:56 +0200 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002
06:48:19 +0200
From: h.d...@un...
X-Sender: tn...@sp...
To: lue...@ak..., di...@ba...,
 wer...@ui..., cr...@cn..., =
mo...@mp...,
 hoh...@ne..., ulr...@ch...,
 sen...@ma..., han...@un...,
 Karl-Heinz Mauritz <ma...@be...>,
 M =3D?UNKNOWN?Q?=3D3D=3D3Fiso-8859-1=3D3FQ=3D3FB=3DE4hr=3D3F=3D3D?=3D
 <neu...@me...>, geo...@me...,
 rei...@me...,
 Ullrich Bogdahn <ulr...@bk...>,
 Thomas Brandt <tb...@gn...>,
 Bastian Conrad <bas...@ne...>,
 Reinhard Dengler <den...@mh...>,
 =3D?UNKNOWN?Q?=3D3D=3D3Fiso-8859-1=3D3FQ=3D3FG=3DFCnther=3D3F=3D3D?=3D =
Deuschl
 <g.d...@ne...>,
 Johannes Dichgans <joh...@un...>,
 Karl =
=3D?UNKNOWN?Q?=3D3D=3D3Fiso-8859-1=3D3FQ=3D3FEinh=3DE4upl=3D3F=3D3D?=3D
 <kar...@ch...>, "C. Elger" <el...@ma...>,
 W Gehlen <wal...@ru...>
Message-id: <3.0...@sp...>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32)
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN
Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

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e...@me...>,    H-J Heinze
<han...@me...>,    W-D Heiss
<W.D...@pe...>,    Michael Hennerici
<hen...@ne...>,    Manfred Kaps
<Man...@ne...>,    Christoph Kessler
<ke...@ne...>,    Thomas Klockgether
<klo...@un...>,    Detlef =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6mpf?=3D
<koe...@ne...>,    C =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?L=FCcking?=3D
<lue...@nz...>,    Albert Ludolph
<alb...@me...>,    J-P Malin
<Jea...@ru...>,    Pater Marx
<ma...@me...>,    B =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Neund=F6rfer?=3D
<ber...@ne...>,    Johannes Noth
<jn...@uk...>,    W H Oertel <oe...@ma...>,    Horst
Przuntek <hor...@ru...>,    Heinz Reichmann
<hei...@ma...>,    Bernhard Ringelstein
<ri...@un...>,    H Steinmetz <h.s...@em...-frankf
rt.de>,    K Toyka <k....@ma...>,    A Wagner
<wa...@me...>,    C-W Wallesch
<wal...@me...>,    Cornelius Weiller
<we...@uk...>,    S Zierz
<sek...@me...>,
<han...@un...>, <ow...@me...>,
<h.d...@un...>,    Marianne   Dieterich
<die...@ne...> From: "Prof.Dr. Hans-Christoph
Diener" <h.d...@un...>
Subject: =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Newsletter_f=FCr_Neurologie?=3D
Cc: =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4rzte?=3D und Wissenschaftler der Neurologie   Essen
<a.h...@un...>,    <dag...@un...>,
<oli...@un...>,    <vol...@un...>,
<mat...@un...>,    Christian Weimar
<str...@un...>, <elm...@un...>,
<chr...@un...>, <tob...@un...>,
<phi...@un...>, <lut...@un...>,
<mar...@un...>, <ilk...@un...>,
<gue...@un...>, <han...@un...>,
<sus...@un...>,    Frau   Eikermann
<ast...@un...>,    <ber...@un...>,
<Ker...@un...>,    <ges...@t-...>,
<zaz...@un...>,    <sch...@ho...>,
<pm...@ao...>, <kla...@un...>,
<tsc...@co...>, <ste...@un...>,
<tho...@un...>, <mar...@we...>,
<pk...@ho...>, <meike.m es...@gm...>, <ger...@un...>,
<fra...@un...>, <web...@ya...> Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=3D"=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D_=
1018406899=3D=3D_" X-Virus-Scanned: by
amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/)

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=3D=3D_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii"

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