Absolutely right. My apologies. I wonder what aberration of
memory caused me to come up with 1000?
The general reasoning, of course, still stands.
john
--On Saturday, 01 December, 2007 00:31 -0800 Bill McQuillan
<McQuilWP(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-30, John C Klensin wrote:
So, if others agree with my interpretation, I propose to
modify the description of 500 quoted above by adding to the
end...
Similarly, producing a "command line too long" message
for a command line shorter than 1000 characters would
violate the provisions of Section 4.5.3.1.4.
My copy of draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-06 would suggest 512
characters:
4.5.3.1.4. command line
The maximum total length of a command line including the
command word and the <CRLF> is 512 characters. SMTP
extensions may be used to increase this limit.