A question about procmailrc

[jdow]

From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>

>> Hongwei Li wrote:
>>> A correction:  from the beginnig of the subject line to the last searching
>>> letter should not exceed 65 chars. For example, suppose the subject line is
>>>
>>> Acccc Bnnnn ..... Hhhhhh is out of the office
>>>
>>> and the matching string is "is out of the", then if the count from A (the
>>> first letter of the subject line) to e (the last letter of the matching
>>> string) is longer than 65, say 66, then the procmailrc does not function.
>>> Then, remove any one letter before "is out...", it works.
>>>
>>> Everybody can try it to see if that is the case.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to lift this limit?  Since Lotus Notes may add very long and
>>> strang things in the subject line, it will be very usefull to lift this
>>> limit
>>> to 80 chars long or so.
>>
>> That limit just sounds terribly unlikely.  The default LINEBUF is
>> 2048, and it cannot be set smaller than 128.  I wonder if Lotus
>> Notes is actually word-wrapping the long subject line, e.g.:
>>
>>     Subject: Aaa Bbbb Ccc/Xxxx Yyy/Zzzz Dddd/Eeee is out of the
>>              office.
>>
>> If your email client reassembles the split line you might not be
>> aware of the split.  Procmail does reassemble the split line, but
>> it's possible that whitespace is being mishandled.  Procmail's
>> manpage has a noteabout a problem with the embedded newlines in
>> continued headers.  Try adding a '+' sign after each space
>> character in your matcher and see if that helps.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Nichols         Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
>>
> 
> No, this time it is not Lotus Notes issue.  I sent the test email myself from
> one FC4 system using squirrelmail to another FC3 system, and manually typed
> the
> 
> Aaaaa Bbbbb Ccccc....Hhhhh Iiiii Jiiii is out of the office
> 
> in the suject line. I found if the total length is 65 or less, procmail works,
> if longer than 65, it does not function.
> 
> Hope more people test it e.g. enter the subject like:
> 
> 123456789 123456789 12...... is out of the office

OK, try adding this to the top of your .procmailrc file. (And make sure it
is not being overridden in an /etc/procmailrc file.)

LINEBUF=2048

{^_^}