Walt Park: > Greetings, > > I have some develpers that want to do.. strange things with the to, from, > and/or reply_to fields for routing. They are concerned that there may be a > limit to the string length they can use either before or after the @ in the > address in the to: from:, and reply_to: .
Citing Postfix limits here is useless, because Postfix limits are larger than required. The minimum limits of Internet mail are documented in RFC5321 and RFC5322. Some limits on e.g. domain name components are in RFCs referenced by these documents. Wietse > I know that's probably not the best idea, but I've been asked to find any > limits anywhere along our mail chain, of which postfix is one point that > might have a limit. RFC 822 does not seem to imply any limits, and I didn't > see anything in the postfix docs that said that there was a limit. > > Is there just.. no limit? > > Thanks in advance > Walt