Re: messages bouncing with Message too long (>40000 chars)

"Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:32:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adam Williams wrote:
> > I dont know the code, but as a C programmer from Way back, if I was
> > debugging it, I would be suspiciously looking for a signed int
> > declarator in the source, that might somehow still be just living
> > in a 16 bit segment world. Which suspicion you might check, if not
> > a programmer, by seeing if messages a little less than 2^15 get
> > through ie 32767 (allow a bit less for header & footer too perhaps ?
> >
> > Or maybe its a simple answer eg some other variable name needed ?
> >
> >   
> I figured it out a little while after posting.  The list was named 
> REPP.museum and there existed 
> /usr/local/majordomo/lists/REPP.museum.config and 
> /usr/local/majordomo/lists/repp.musuem.conf.  I deleted 
> REPP.museum.config and changed the maxlength = in repp.museum.config and 
> all is well now.

Ah good !
( My soul too deeply scared by decades of Intel segment, pathological ;-)
Julian
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Julian Stacey.  BSD Unix Linux Net Consultant, Munich.  http://berklix.com