Re: Adjusted the hackers mailing list

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
>> You may have noticed some old emails just showing up
>> on the hackers list. They were held because their
>> "header lines were too long." I've just changed the limits
>> on the hackers list as follows:
>
>> max_header_line_length from 1024 to 2048
>> max_mime_header_length from 1024 to 2048
>
>> The trapped messages were at lengths of 1030 or so.
>
> Actually, long threads tend to run into that restriction on all the
> lists --- it's the References: lines that get long.  If we're going to
> increase the limit (which I agree with) please do it across the board
> not just for -hackers.

I think we shouldn't raise it to 10240 rather than just 2048. I mean,
what are we afraid of with long headers, that the mail servers will
run out of memory on a 1k header?

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greg