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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Email address matching in KMReaderWin::strToHtml()
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-04-19 18:24:24
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On Friday 19 April 2002 17:33, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Friday 19 April 2002 16:32, Dave Corrie wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > a) Not turn addresses over 255 characters in length into hyperlinks
> > (i.e. leave them as plain text)?
> > b) Remove the limit of scanning only 255 characters, so that both
> > the above cases are turned into hyperlinks?
>
> b.
>
> > I had a look at RFC 2822 to see if there was a limit on the length
> > of valid email addresses, but I couldn't see anything relevant. Did
> > I miss something?
>
> <snip>
>
> No, there's no limit. There's a soft limit of ~80 chars/line and a
> hard limit of 988 chars/line, but they can be overcome with folding
> addresses (or using qp soft linebreaking in the body).

We should be careful with completely removing the limit because this 
could maybe be exploited somehow.

What about raising the limit to 4096 characters? This should be more 
than enough.

Regards,
Ingo

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