From: Keith Moore (moore@cs.utk.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 13:22:18 CST
> There also appears to be precedent for such transport limits
> finding their way into the message format specification. RFC 822
> had no line length limit; the 998 octet limit in 2822 sections
> 2.1.1, 2.3, and 3.5 appears to be derived from the SMTP transport
> limitation.
yes, but that one is completely necessary. if you can't transport
a rfc 2822 message in SMTP then it isn't likely to go very far.
not that it's a bad idea to bound the length of message-ids, but
using this as excuse to say that message-ids are bound by the SMTP
limit on address length is quite a stretch.
Keith