On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> It appears that Brandon Long via mailop <bl...@google.com> said: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >RFC 3030 which provides for the BDAT command and BINARYMIME which treats > >the message not as text at all > >and so I wouldn't expect that that text limit would apply, though the RFC > >doesn't discuss any limits. > > It says that even if you support BDAT you still have to support DATA, > so there's no difference in what you're allowed to send. Also note > that RFC5322 includes the 1000 character limit independent of the > transport. > > I don't know anyone who uses BINARYMIME. Microsoft's MTAs say they do > but I've never tried to see if it works. > We did some testing with it and got some really inconsistent end to end responses even from services which advertised it. The idea of saving bytes by not using base64 was appealing. And BINARYMIME is incompatible with the line length limit unless your content happens to have new-lines in the right places or is shorter than 1000 bytes. Brandon
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