Ralph wrote: > heirloom-mailx's mail(1) has > > maximum-unencoded-line-length > Messages that contain lines longer than the value of this > variable are encoded in quoted-printable even if they contain > only ASCII characters. The maximum effective value is 950. If > set to 0, all ASCII text messages are encoded in > quoted-printable. S/MIME signed messages are always encoded in > quoted-printable regardless of the value of this variable. > > Don't know if that helps. Perhaps it could default to 76 and all of us > will just crank it up to the max, being sure that we're under sendmail's > break-line-with-a-! limit.
I like that. I think the default could be 78 instead of 76. 76 is the max length of an encoded q-p text line. 78 is the "SHOULD" limit for unencoded text [RFC 5322, Sec. 2.1.1]. And 998 could be the max to comply with the RFC and in turn keep sendmail happy. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
