Re: quick & dirty alternate addresses

[email protected] Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:39:24 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> "Adam M. Costello" <[email protected]>
> >
> > While we're considering new header fields and new address-mapping
> > servers to deal with the problem of having alternate addresses, we ought
> > to consider how far we could get with what we already have.
> ...
> > From: "name1a <local1a@domain1a> / name1b <local1b@domain1b> /
> >   name1c <local1c@domain1c>" <local1a_ACE@domain1a_ACE>

> We don't have that. From my point of view, I could implement it, but it
> would be roughly as much work as for the Address-Map list.

> I'm jittery about two things, though. 1: What effect do really long
> display-parts, say 100 characters, have on crapware?

You're right to be worried, as not only are there problems handling long
phrases, I believe there are actually buffer overrun vulnerabilities in this
space. Even if these problems are fixed now (whatever that means) the existance
of a buffer overrun means some firewalls are likely to enforce draconian limits
on such things.'

				Ned