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Re: [Emailcore] Ticket #14: G.7.8. Review different size limits

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Thu, 15 July 2021 20:58 UTC

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> On 15 Jul 2021, at 4:16 pm, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> PS: I don't feel strongly about lifting the 1000 octet limit but I would like
> to understand how widely it's enforced by mail receivers.

On the receiving side Postfix does not enforce any physical
line length limits on message body lines, but as already
mentioned logical header headers, and thus of course also
any single physical line in a logical header can't exceed
100KiB.

The 1000 octet limit is only enforced when sending.

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	Viktor.

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