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

Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Thu Feb 23 23:00:06 UTC 2012


On 02/24/12 05:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Arthur Chance wrote:
>> DO NOT FEED THE TROLL!
> Well spotted&  said :-)
>
>
>> Not only is "Al Hadith" the Islamic term for the teachings and acts of
>> the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the To: field had 388 other addresses
>> in it. It's a nasty troll.
> 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 ).
However misguided they are, they may believe strongly in this; so I'm 
not sure there is a troll per se.

The evidence is that they have only targeted freebsd.org addresses, and 
only the questions list. If they were trolling, why not include all the 
other lists?


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