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Re: no restriction on length of the localpart?

From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 20:06:24 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org

* Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:50:47PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> > I received no error message; but when using a domain literal
> > exceeeding 63 characters I received an error.
>
> Domain literals are in the domain-part. Not the local-part.

Yes. I just mentioned it, because I tested that as well, and postfix
imposed a limit there.
 
> > But where IS the actual limit in postfix?
> > max_line_length - lenght(RCPT TO:<>) ?
>
> This certainly limits the length of an SMTP command. Unless I missing
> seeing all these years, Postfix has no explicit limit on address length.

Hmm.

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