>> 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 concur, although I'm not sure what the option should be called, because
that thing is kinda long. Maybe -maxunencoded?
>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.
Yeah, looking at the RFCs again, I believe you're right.
Ralph writes:
>Does the 76 historically come from 78 - strlen("> ") to allow for a
>simple single-level of quoting?
You know ... I'm not sure why that is. You still need to count "> " in
the line length, so it doesn't gain anything. You don't count the CRLF,
but you never count the CRLF for the 78 character limit either.
--Ken
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