SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

[Daniel Staal]

On Thu, February 23, 2012 2:01 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> Those 388 probably explain why I just saw on a FreeBSD-6.4 host:
>
> ] fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)
> ] fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON at ........ bounced to
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> ] fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery
>
> My sympathies go to postmaster@ team who are probably already
> receiving lots of bounces & noise on this.
>
> PS Yes I realise I should upgrade that 6.4 box to 8.2
> 	(as headers made it through the more modern SMTP of list
> 	server), but my local tech. constraints etc delay me ).

Sounds like it's working as a decent spam filter to me.  What setting to I
have to change to make it do that again?  ;)

Daniel T. Staal

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