At 2:05 PM -0800 2/7/02, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>Further to my earlier posting, here's another example of the error:
>
>"Failed to deliver your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>SMTP: The letter body is rejected by host
>Host 'extmail.bigpond.com' says:
>550 DATA line too long (Max 1024)"

That is positive proof that extmail.bigpond.com is one very broken mail server.

A mail server shouldn't be complaining about the internal format of 
message data. While it is traditionally the case that mail messages 
are composed of relatively short lines of text, there is NO standard 
that defines and RFC2821 specifically says a mail server SHOULD NOT 
impose a format on mail messages.

As to fixing this, the solution would be to make sure your messages 
don't have long lines. This may be tricky, since that broken mail 
server may be using a different definition of what constitutes a line 
than you do. It could be looking for carriage returns, linefeeds, or 
CRLF pairs. Your only certain answer to that would come from the 
idiot who wrote the useless thing.



-- 
Bill Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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