Re: NMH mail package utility "inc" aborts before incorporating first new email into an NMH folder

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:03:43 -0400

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Andy Bradford <[email protected]> wrote:
    > I wrote a patch  a few years ago to deal with this  issue because I have
    > one sender that hasn't yet  fixed---or even acknowledged for that matter
    > that they  have a  problem with---their  software that  injects messages
    > that have lines well over 11 million characters.

Ken, is there some *unit testing* infrastructure that I've missed?

My trailing nul elimination patch breaks attachments, and I haven't been able
to debug this sufficiently, because recreating the inputs to the relevant
function has been difficult.

if there is no unit testing structure here, maybe a few people might want to
get together synchronously (JITSI, etc.) and brainstorm something.

    > Stephen then provided a different but  similar patch to address the same

...

    > I used to  reject this kind of garbage  but then I found that  it got my
    > email address blacklisted  by the Amazon SES Suppression  List (of which
    > it has two [1][2]) because apparently Amazon SES treats all 5xx failures
    > as some  kind of license to  block addresses despite the  reason for the
    > failure,  rather than  communicating back  the sender  that they  have a
    > problem.

I generally like walls of shame.
I think that it is worth shaming here.
But, still, we need to deal with the problem, and aborting is not dealing.

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