43159 - textfields should be less than 1000 chars...

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I know that not alot of people are affected by this bug, but anyways: It seems 
that fx newsserver only allow header lines to be 1000 chars.

If this user fx enters 1000 chars in the "Your Name", "Email Address", 
"Reply-To" or "Organisation" field in the Account Settings the From header(Your 
Name + Email Address) or other header when sending mails will be too long and 
the user will be presented with some strange sending error whenever the user 
tries to post something.

Couldn't we just limit the number of chars the user are allow to enter in the in 
textarea of the xul (am-main.xul) file. Something like MAXLENGTH="100". Doesn't 
textfields support this?

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

sure, would be nice

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: Limit textfields to 400

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

gemal, I want to find out if there are RFCs on header length, so we aren't 
arbitrarily limiting people.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

alec, any word?

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

RFC822 does not impose any limit on the length of any header (and in fact says 
"this RFC does not impose such a limit" when referring to "long" headers.
There are also no limits expressed in RFC850 (exchange of USENET messages) or 
RFC977 (NNTP)

So I'm marking this invalid.

if the "fx" newsserver has problems, then it's a bug on the newsserver.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

vrfy invalid