[Nmh-workers] problem with long field names

[John Heidemann]

This is cut-and-pasted from 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437652

Description of problem:
Recently (in the last month or so), linkedin.com has started sending very long 
From fields.  As a result, pick fails with messages like this:



pick: field name "From address@hidden  Mon Mar " exceeds 127 bytes
pick: format error in message 169

Here's the start of the message:

From address@hidden  Mon Mar  3 02:03:01 2008
Return-Path: <address@hidden>
...


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nmh-1.2-20070115cvs.4.fc8 

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. generate a message with a too-long From line
2. scan +inbox
3.

Actual Results:
See description for error message.

Expected Results:
No error message, successful scan.

Additional info:
I have a patch and will attach it subsequently.


Patches attached.

   -John Heidemann

nmh-namesz.patch
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nmh-namesz-spec.patch
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