On Fri, 7 May 1999, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> I guess strictly speaking you should work out how long a header could be
> theoretically.
Er, how? Headers can be used by any applications for their own purposes,
and are by no means all standardized.
> If you had two hosts talking to each other and both had the
> maximum length of a hostname possible allowed by DNS, then you had all the
> other logs, you'd probably end up with something in your code which looked like
> this, to allow for a header vaguely in the format
>
> host <H1> a.b.c.d received message from <H2> w.x.y.z blah blah blah
Why pick on that header? You'll get a much longer one from
To: 1 a very long introductory phrase for an address <verylong1@verylong>,
2 a very long introductory phrase for an address <verylong2@verylong>,
3 a very long introductory phrase for an address <verylong3@verylong>,
... and so ad infinitum - well, for a long time. Even just 100
recipients would make quite a long header.
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