El 12/02/13 16:25, Thomas Preud'homme escribió:
That said, I'd really like to understand what's the objective with this check since it's only performed at request time and no longer after. Is this for memory consumption, spam, something else? How is this goal achieved by enforcing a check at request time only?
The last question is easy to answer: Messages to the mailing list itself may have any length. Messages sent to the -request address are meant to contain "commands", and they are almost always very short. In this sense, a message "too big" sent to the -request address is most probably a mistake.
I think that would be the reason to have a size check for the -request address and not for the normal list address.
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