Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:49:58 +0000 From: Nick Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| I use NMH 1.0.4_1 on FreeBSD, reading mail using POP3. I am unable to | collect messages containing very long lines (greater than 1K | characters). While it would be good if nmh had no such limitations, messages like that are absolutely not conforming, and how they're treated is largely up to the implementation. No-one should be expecting a message with a line that long to be delivered correctly. See Section 2.1.1 of rfc2822 There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. 1K > 998 (regardless of whether the 1K included the CRLF or not). kre ps: I have absolutely no idea if there will ever be a new nmh release, or if anyone really still cares (and is able) to make cvs commits, I know I can't. But you're certainly not the last MH user around!