Re: Processed: dpkg bug severities
In message <[🔎] E0x7Klg-0000yh-00@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, writes:
>Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
>> This line produced an error when fetchmail downloaded my mail:
>>
>> Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>(dpkg #1004
>9
>> #10259 #1037 #10433 #104...992 #12187 #1399 #1555 #1797 #1921 #2701 #2894
>> #2904 #2911 #2929 #3170 #3225 #3406 #3991 #4093 #4319... Unbalanced '('
>> Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>(dpkg #1004
>9
>> #10259 #1037 #10433 #104...992 #12187 #1399 #1555 #1797 #1921 #2701 #2894
>> #2904 #2911 #2929 #3170 #3225 #3406 #3991 #4093 #4319... Unbalanced '('
>>
>> which came (I think) from sendmail.
>
>I have no idea whether it came from sendmail or not, but the brackets
>_were_ balanced. The line in question is 625 characters wide, and the
>last character is the closing ). A copy of the header as it got
>through my mail-to-news gateway into chiark.mail.debian.devel is
>below (I've run `fold -79' on it so you can see it even if your mailer
>doesn't like long body lines either).
>
>Perhaps your mailer has problems with long lines. Personally I think
>this is just a bug in your mailer - 625 characters is not a totally
>unreasonable size for a header line. However, I'll see if I can find
>some time to have the bug system wrap the line itself a little
>earlier.
>
>> So it appears that Ian Jackson's mailer is producing header lines that can
>not
>> be parsed by a receiving sendmail.
In fact it definitely is sendmail that reports the error.
Since the line, with it's closing bracket, did show up in my mailer, I
don't think there's a problem anywhere else.
If the length of line is legal, then it's definitely a sendmail problem.
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