- **status**: review --> closed
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** [tickets:#8241] SMTP maximum allowed line length**
**Status:** closed
**Milestone:** unreleased
**Created:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 06:50 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema
**Last Updated:** Thu Oct 04, 2018 01:46 AM UTC
**Owner:** Dave Brondsema
With some mail servers, very long email lines cause errors:
```
File "/var/local/allura/Allura/allura/tasks/mail_tasks.py", line 198, in
sendmail
in_reply_to, multi_msg, sender=sender, references=references)
File "/var/local/allura/Allura/allura/lib/mail_util.py", line 267, in sendmail
content)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 750, in sendmail
raise SMTPDataError(code, resp)
SMTPDataError: (550, 'maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, got 1136')
```
http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2010/07/smtp-maximum-line-lengths/ confirms line
length limits, and recommends quoted-printable as a workaround, which I have
seen elsewhere also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
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