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Re: Maximum length of a header line?

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 11:23:02 CDT


* Victor Duchovni <Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com>:

> My take on it is that the milter must support folded headers of up to
> 32k in length (Sendmail limits the total header size to this value, so
> headers larger than 32k are problematic already). Since milters are still
> primarily for Sendmail, the 32k size limit is natural. The next natural
> limit is 64k, which is the milter protocol packet size limit, this would
> accomodate possibly larger future header size limits in Sendmail.
>
> I don't have a login on the bug tracking system in question, so perhaps
> someone else can make the suggestion...

Done.

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