Field MaximumReferences
- Namespace
- MailFathom.Domain.Delivery
- Assembly
- MailFathom.Domain.dll
The greatest number of ancestors a composed message writes into References.
public const int MaximumReferences = 32Returns
- int
- The greatest number of ancestors a composed message writes into References.
Remarks
A conversation grows without bound and the header grows with it, so a long exchange would eventually carry more path than message. The bound is deliberately far below the MaximumReferences a parse keeps, because the two answer different questions: a parse publishes what somebody else wrote, and this decides what this system writes and will be judged on by every receiving client.
What a bounded path loses is its middle. The root identifier names the conversation and the recent end is what a client walks to attach the reply, so both survive and the ancestors between them are given up.