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

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 16 July 2021 18:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Emailcore] Ticket #14: G.7.8. Review different size limits
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According to Steffen Nurpmeso  <steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
> |>Especially since presence of non 7-bit clean data imposes MIME
> |>encoding, anyway?
> |
> |Hm.  You might want to investigate the 8BITMIME SMTP extension, defined in
> |1993 and supported by every MTA I've looked at in this millenium.
>
>I have these RFCs (i have 6152 locally, it obsoleted 1652).  But
>i do not think i have ever encountered usage of this myself.

I see unencoded UTF-8 in mssages bodies all the time. ¡Hola! 😕

> |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.
>
>I would assume transmission is rejected for any such email?

Not that I've ever seen but I haven't looked very hard.  I think it's
more common to stuff in a \r\n and continue.

Anyway, I think we've agreed that the 1000 octet limit isn't changing.

R's,
John
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