Re: [Emailcore] Proposed ESMTP keyword RCPTLIMIT

Laura Atkins <laura@wordtothewise.com> Fri, 12 March 2021 17:16 UTC

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> On 12 Mar 2021, at 16:23, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
> 
> On 3/12/2021 8:07 AM, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>> Certainly.  Did you have a case in mind that isn't covered by
>> the above two parameters?
>> (I should have specified "taking one or more parameters from the list...")
> 
> max line length\
> max number of lines
> max number of characters for total message
> MIME limits (eg., nesting depth)
> Unicode or other character limits
> 
> I'm not advocating for particular and am not sure any of the above are of practical interest, nevermind sufficient interest to standardize, but I think they serve as plausible examples.

Is there a place for ‘max connections’ - a number of places already limit the number of maximum connections that any sending system can make at one time. A way to mechanically advertise that might be useful. 

laura 

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