On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:01 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Wrapping lines correctly is the job of the MUA.
> 
> No, it is not. For this reason, the Mail RFC 
> allows a max line length of 78 characters.

The RFC also says "it is encumbant upon implementations which display
messages to handle an arbitrarily large number of characters in a line
(certainly at least up to the 998 character limit) for the sake of
robustness"...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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