able to accept message bodies with any line length. There's nothing in the RFCs that indicate that a line length in the body itself must be bounded to a certain size;
Unfortunately, you're wrong.
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RFC 2822:
2.1.1. Line Length Limits
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.
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Courier limits lines to 5,000 characters, well above the required minimum.
and we're increasingly finding cases where this is breaking on our server.
Software that generates lines of text longer than 5,000 characters is definitely broken.
Lines in an E-mail message must have a limit in order to prevent denial-of-service attacks. 5,000 characters, no matter how you look at it, is more than reasonable.
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