* Jon Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A user of mine is reporting that the addresses he's entering into teh > > To: and Cc: fields are being truncated, whenever he specifies a LOT of > > recipients. The truncation happens in the middle of an email address - > > that's why he's noticing that problem. > > > What is the upper bound for the number of characters one can fill into > > the To: and/or Cc: fields? > > We don't define a limit that I can find. However, that doesn't mean > that limits don't exist. For example, post values might have a maximum > length from the browser. Can you verify if the item in the sent > folder is truncated? Can you see how many characters the truncation > happens at?
My user replied. Finally! Have a look: ============ His to line was this (cut & paste for a file): [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which resulted in this message in the send folder: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list above is about 313 characters long The resulting To: line is about 264 (lose the spaces and you're quite close to a 2^8 limit)... -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
