> No idea. One could equally-well argue for setting it to zero. Noted.
It was changed here long-ago, guessing for a reason, but I've no current metrics to convince me, or not, that there's a problem (anymore). My inclination is to stick with Postfix's 'new(er)' default/standard == 998, for no other reason than it IS the default/standard. And simply allow the non-compliant "rest" cause whatever problems they will ...