Re: Body Length mechanism rejections

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Michael Thomas allegedly wrote:
> Eric Allman wrote:
> 
> >>>>| 3.4.5  Body Length Limits
> >>>>| ...
> >>>>| Note that verifiers MAY choose to reject or truncate messages
> >>>>| that have body content beyond that specified by the body length
> >>>>| count.
> >>>>
> >>>>change to:
> >>>>
> >>>>: Note that verifiers MAY choose to truncate messages that have
> >>>>: body content beyond that specified by the body length count.
> >>>
> >
> >Paul and Jim seem to agree --- others?

Is this meaning to say that a verifier can't reject a mail if the
length mis-matches? That seems like something rather hard to
enforce. I also don't know the context this is in. Is it only relevant
if a verify is checking l= or in all cases?


Mark.