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Re: [milter-greylist] cutting off sender-string

2004-09-13 by manu@netbsd.org

Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@...> wrote:

> manu> Instead of 127, what about using the maximum limits here? RFC 821
> manu> suggests 64 chars for mailbox and 64 chars for domain name. Plus the '@'
> manu> and optionnal quotes around the mailbox, that makes 131. Was it
> manu> obsoleted by a newer RFC? I recall a limit of 1024 on the domain name,
> manu> but I can't find updated documentation. 
> 
> Yes, it is better to use the maximum limits instead of 127.  However,
> I'm not sure the value is.

What is the limit in sendmail?
   
> Because, error handling against malloc() in pending_get() is written
> so.

Sounds fine then. I'll commit that once we'll have found the maximum
length of an e-mail address.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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