On 25/03/2025 10:52, Toon Moene wrote: > On 3/25/25 11:32, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >> On 24/03/2025 22:08, Toon Moene wrote: >>> On 3/24/25 17:27, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >>> >>>> On 23/03/2025 20:26, Toon Moene wrote: >>> >>>>> I had the following message when sending test results to gcc-testresults >>>>> *starting* today (3 times): >>>>> >>>>> Note that the message is generated by *my* exim4 "mail delivery software" >>>>> (Debian Testing) - it is not the *receiving* side that thinks the lines >>>>> are too long. >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone else seeing this ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >>>>> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >>>>> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:18:28 +0100 >>>>> From: Mail Delivery System <mailer-dae...@moene.org> >>>>> To: t...@moene.org >>>>> >>>>> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. >>>>> >>>>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >>>>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>>>> >>>>> gcc-testresu...@gcc.gnu.org >>>>> message has lines too long for transport >>>> >>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1 >>>> >>>> So there's a 998 (sic) character limit on the length of any line. I'm >>>> guessing your mail posting tool is not reformatting the message and trying >>>> to pass it straight through. Your SMTP server then rejects it. >>>> >>>> I guess your options are to request a 'flowed' encoding type or to >>>> reformat the message with a filter before passing it on to your SMTP >>>> server. >>>> >>>> R. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> I placed a >>> >>> fold -s -w 300 | >>> >>> filter in front of the >>> >>> mail -s >>> >>> command. >>> >>> At least I got one simple test passed to the mailing list: >>> >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-testresults/2025-March/841892.html >> >> There's nothing in that post that looks even remotely close to 300 chars, >> let alone 998. So I'm not sure what would be going on. >> >> R. > > But this one has: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-testresults/2025-March/841925.html > (the failing Fortran tests). >
LOL. Yeah, not the most memorable of test names :) R.
