Anyway, how do they get 5000 characters on a line? They must be trying hard, as I rarely send emails with anything near that amount of characters, and any decent email client linewraps at 80-100 characters, even hotmail! Exactly what client are they using, and what are they trying to do?
I have two separate instances where this has occurred:
a) IcoWarp Software's Merak webmail interface generates an HTML-encoded message, where the html contains no newlines. Yes, they should probably fix their implementation, but "everyone" else accepts it. I'm all for being a hard-ass on making sure the RFCs are followed, but when a client complains that can't get an important email and is thorough enough to test that it would have worked on every other existing MTA on the planet, I have a *really* hard argument to make. Their html message happened to be 5024 bytes. Bummer.
b) I've had one known instance of a user using SquirrelMail creating a blank message and attaching a single PDF file, where the PDF file itself was "odd" (some password protected variant that probably didn't have newlines in it at random points with 100% probability of hitting one every 5,000 characters). I do not have an tcpdump of the SMTP dialog for this instance, but would do so if it was useful to anyone.
best, Jeff
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