Greetings, I agree that if they have to ask, it's probably the wrong way, but it's not my call. Unless they break protocol, I can not object, and have to make sure things run as expected.
Thanks for the link. Cheers, Walt On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Victor Duchovni < victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:32:24AM -0500, Walt Park wrote: > > > 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: . > > If they are concerned, they are probably doing the wrong thing. The syntax > of email addresses is defined in RFCs 5321 and 5322. Most relevant are: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.1 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.2 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.3 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.4 > > -- > Viktor. > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. > > To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit > http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: > <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> > > If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not > send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put > "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly. >
