On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:33:21 -0800, John Mattson wrote:
>
>However, the RFC for SMTP defines the maximum for a line of data as 1000,
>so that wins over z/OS.  If you want to have lines longer than 1000 you
>can, but you have to encode the text using something other than plain text
>and spread it across multiple lines in the MIME-part body.
>
That may be in RFC 822.  And later RFCs may impose harsher limits.

(Like an irresponsible journalist, I didn't verify that just
now.  Left as an exercise for the student.)

-- gil

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