The IMSS is designed to comply with the RFC 2821 specifications, which limits the allowed number of characters on the sender's email address. The imposed limit is hard-coded in IMSS program.
As a workaround, disable the IMSS compliance to RFC:
- Make sure that the latest Service Pack for IMSS Windows is installed in your machine.
- Open the C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\IMSS\config\tsmtpd.ini file using Notepad or any text editor.
- Go to [SmtpServer] section and add the following parameter:
CheckSenderLength=0
A value of "0" disables the sender email address length checking while a value of "1" enables this function. - Save and close the file.
- Restart the Trend Micro IMSS SMTP Service.
The RFC 2821 specifies the following rules for the parts of a sender email address:
- Local part - The maximum total length of a user name or other local part is 64 characters.
- Domain - The maximum total length of a domain name or number is 255 characters.
- Path - The maximum total length of a reverse-path or forward-path is 256 characters, including the punctuation and element separators.
- Command line -The maximum total length of a command line, including the command word, is 512 characters. The SMTP extensions may be used to increase this limit.