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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
