In SIMS Digest #1619, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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.
Sort of. That's the bad part about RFCs (and lawyers!)....everything is
subject to interpretation. RFC2821 says, in section 4.5.3.1, "Size limits
and minimums":
"text line
The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is
1000 characters (not counting the leading dot duplicated for
transparency). This number may be increased by the use of SMTP
Service Extensions"
Since the "dot duplicated for transparency" would ONLY apply to the "DATA"
portion of a message (i.e., to "escape" a line within the mail message that
contained only a "." -- a period) one could argue that there _is_ a
restriction imposed on the format (length) of individual "text lines"
within mail messages.
But hey, I'm not a lawyer (and I'm not getting paid to have an opinion
one way or the other), so I won't argue who's right on this one!
Michael A. Pasek
Pasek Consulting, Inc.
9741 Foley Boulevard NW
Coon Rapids, MN 55433-5616
(612) 597-5977
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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