Cory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's wrong with simply truncating the address? It maintain's
> consistancy with the current mechanism, and avoids the expensive
> SHA-1 calculation.
Probably a better idea, yes.
Tim Legant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Therefore, the email address can be a maximum of 255 - 22 or 233
> characters. Then, to preserve as much as possible, make the local
> and host parts relative lengths:
I think it's more straightforward to just chop off the tail if it
exeeds 233 chars, so this is the patch I propose:
Index: Util.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tmda/tmda/TMDA/Util.py,v
retrieving revision 1.110.2.1
diff -u -r1.110.2.1 Util.py
--- Util.py 9 Jan 2004 19:21:50 -0000 1.110.2.1
+++ Util.py 25 Jan 2004 17:31:11 -0000
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
MODE_READ = 04
MODE_WRITE = 02
NL = '\n'
+POSIX_NAME_MAX = 255 # maximum length of a file name
def gethostname():
@@ -449,10 +450,14 @@
outside the directory.
- Spaces are replaced with underscores.
- The address is lowercased.
+ - Truncate sender at 233 chars to insure the full filename
+ (including time, pid, and two dots) fits within the POSIX limit of
+ 255 chars for a filename.
"""
sender = sender.replace(' ', '_')
sender = sender.replace('/', ':')
- return sender.lower()
+ sender = sender.lower()
+ return sender[:POSIX_NAME_MAX - 22]
def confirm_append_address(xp, rp):
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