On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> } The current value is 8192 bytes. It seemed to me that any header line
> } longer than that was totally absurd! I could make it configurable, but
> } is that really sensible?
>
> Is this for a single line, a single line with continuation - ie
> To: a, b, c,
> d, e, f
> g, h ,i
>
> or for merged headers - ie how about a message with 60 Cc lines??
A single line with continuation(s).
> More seriously, is there a really good reason for limiting this
> length at all, other than possibly as a per site policy decision?
Well, I thought that if a mailer out there in the world went mad and
just started throwing junk bytes at you there ought to be some kind of
longstop. I thought at the time that 8192 was reasonable for this
purpose. I don't like totally limitless things...
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