The only place I've seen a line length problem has been in some of the web
based Email set-ups. Current Server-Client Email seems to handle this with
out any problems. HTTP Email has a ways to go. I've noted a number of spam
messages that are not rendered properly when received by a web based Email,
but working just fine (unfortunately) in Server-Client Email.
Kevin Childers
It's like I've always said, "You can get
more with a kind word and a two by four,
than you can get with just a kind word."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Line length limit for mail
> > I notice that if someone sends a message to an IMail user, and the
> > message contains lines of text that are longer than (around) 1024
> > characters, those lines get truncated. Is this valid behaviour (by
> > the SMTP standard)?
>
> RFC821 (section 4.5.3) states that the maximum length of a "text line"
(anything in the actual E-mail, after the headers) is 1000 characters.
>
> > Even if it's valid, there seem to be a lot of mail clients out there
> > that send messages incorrectly with lines longer than that (mine
> > included before I just changed it). Is there a way for me to change
> > the limit in some configuration file or something?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. It used to never be a problem, as computers only
had 80 characters' width on the screens, so if anyone wrote an E-mail that
had a line longer than that, nobody would see it. Then, Mr. Microsoft
decided that since it wanted Windows to dominate the computer world, it
would start letting people do weird things like have lines that were 1,000
characters long. It would take these bogus lines and split them onto
multiple lines, so that they would look OK. That's cool until it breaks
software.
>
> I remember when I first started getting E-mail from someone using Outlook.
I had to jump through hoops to try to figure out what was being sent, since
my mail client did what it was supposed to and displayed the lines as they
were sent. Finally, the E-mail clients gave up and started working around
this Microsoft flaw/feature.
>
> Even if IMail has a config option to allow longer lines, it will only be
guaranteed to work for local->local E-mail. Any E-mail coming from another
mail server, or going to another mail server, would likely have the lines
truncated.
>
>
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