> Here's what's happening - we are storing a message with a long
> subject line as indicated below.
First, I'm sure you know it, but you are trying to push the functionality of the
subject line to its limits.
> YET when we retrieve it there appears to be some funny breaks that
> have been inserted by iMAIL into the subject line. Not sure why but
> I need this fixed. Then all would work. Each break appears to be
> at about the 150 character mark.
These "funny breaks" are likely "folding". I'm not sure *why* IMail would do that, as
I can't see a reason that IMail should. But, RFC 822 allows for something called
"folding". If a header is long, you are allowed to continue it onto the next line, by
having the next line start with a space or tab.
I would recommend accepting the funny breaks, as it is quite likely that software
besides IMail will do this, so if you change E-mail clients, servers, whatever, these
funny breaks might come back.
>From a server point of view, if you wanted to accept E-mail from anyone (not just
>E-mail that you had sent from a client you are willing to work with solely), you
>would have to be able to handle the folding issue. It's a royal pain, and dealing
>with headers would be a LOT easier without it, but remember those RFCs were written
>almost 20 years ago! A 500 byte header would take up a significant portion of the
>memory of PCs from those days.
-Scott
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