[courier-users] Re: Maximal length of To: header

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

paw...@po... writes:

>> > I would like to know why the real maximal length of To: header is
>> > only 5000 characters?
>> 
>> I'd like to ask a different question: why is it necessary to have single 
>> mail headers that are over five thousand bytes long?  This is completely 
>> unreasonable.
> 
> Thank you very much for your response, Sam. I know that mails with very
> long headers are stupid ideas, but some of my users can't understand it. 

Well, then, make them understand it.

> Note, that _you_ set value of headerlimit to 100000.

That's the max total size of all headers.  So, your point?


> Your webmail is OK, but it doesn't check number of addresses for one
> nickname in user's address book or size of header with that nickname.

It would be quite a few to type in such a huge header by hand, via webmail.