On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:49:46 +0100 Michelle Konzack
<linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> You complan about the 2048 Bytes sounds realy weird, because base64
> encoded attachment should not have (-> please read the RFC's) more then
> 72 Bytes per line.
>
> If you modify the source code you schould know, that some MTA's can
> reject such messages do to a violation of the RFC's. courier-mta reject
> by default or convert the faulty mail to an attachment which the is send
> to the originating recipient depending on its configuration.
Michelle,
Even though you are right that one should not create lines containing
more characters than the RFCs allow, there is no excuse for deliberately
being non-binary transparent.
It looks like this patch actually fixes a non-fatal buffer overflow.
It's *not* a good idea to reject fixes like this.
